In this paper we present an integral equation approach for the valuation of European-style installment derivatives when the premium payments, made continuously throughout the contract’s life, are assumed to be a function of the asset price and time variables. The contribution of this study is...

During the last three decades various models have been proposed by the literature to predict the risk of bankruptcy and of firm insolvency, which make use of structural and empirical tools, namely rating system, credit scoring, option pricing and three alternative methods (fuzzy logic, efficient...