This paper proposes a new method of fund rating based on the cross-sectional distribution of fund performance measured by alpha. This distribution-based fund rating model is more flexible and provides more interesting results than current commercial fund rating method used by Morningstar. Unlike...

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Investment, dividend and external financing decisions are the major decisions of a firm. External financing includes the flotation of new common shares and/or new debt. Previous studies on the interrelationships among these three decisions precluded new equity financing in their models. Thus,...

This study investigates the pricing behaviors of default-free bond futures and American options on default-free bond futures based on the framework of Brennan and Schwartz (1979). In their model, the state space of interest-rate-dependent claims is spanned by the instantaneous spot interest rate...