We investigate the pricing of convertible bonds on the French convertible bond market using dailymarket prices for a period of 18 months. Instead of a firm-value model as used in previous studies, weuse a stock-based binomial-tree model with exogenous credit risk that accounts for all...

This paper examines the performance of US mutual funds investing primarily in convertible bonds. Although convertible-bond funds are popular investment vehicles, their return process is not well understood. We contribute an analysis of the complete universe of US convertible-bond funds proposing...