We analyze corporate financial policies in leveraged buyouts (LBOs) in the presence of default risk. Our model captures the LBO-specific stepwise debt reduction, either with predetermined or cash-flow dependent (cash sweep) principal payments, and thus allows for dynamic redemption. These...

The significant excess of the price of risk, research question in the version paper, [S. Chule, in Applied Mathematical Finance, submitted June 2016], is space-domain form re-evaluated into the stochastic problem objective of the premium risk. The adapts of the conventional generic replication...

XVA is a material component of a trade valuation and hence it must impact the decision to exercise options within a given netting set. This is true for both unsecured trades and secured/cleared trades where KVA and MVA play a material role even if CVA and FVA do not. However, this effect has...

The two main issues for managing wrong way risk (WWR) for the credit valuation adjustment (CVA, i.e. WW-CVA) are calibration and hedging. Hence we start from a novel model-free worst-case approach based on static hedging of counterparty exposure with liquid options. We say "start from" because...

Motivated by problems in mathematical finance and insurance, this paper discusses optimal stopping problem in general setting. It considers discounted running cost and stopping cost in addition to terminal gain in the objective function, subject to be optimized over finite-time period. The...

The Indian corporate bond market is still developing, and as such there are some peculiarities that might not be found in a matured market. This paper describes the state of development and key obstacles to further development. It reveals some unusual market behavior and patterns from available...

In this paper we examine in detail the qualitative effects caused by the investors sensitivity to mark-to-market and price of liquidity. This distorts CAPM-like portfolio construction causing the Capital Line to become curved and eventually inverted. We show that in the world of strongly concave...

Crises challenge client XVA management because the prices of derivatives contain the XVA hedges that the provider requires, as well as the functional hedge the client requires. By functional hedge we mean the hedge linked to the client's business, e.g. FX, inflation, interest rate. By XVA hedge...

Current corporate risk management theories predict that young firms should hedge more than the established ones. However, the claim is not supported by empirical observations, which also present mixed evidence on whether hedging creates value. This paper attempts to address this puzzle by...

This work documents the existence of a cointegration relationship between credit spreads, leverage and equity volatility for a large set of US companies. It is shown that accounting for the long-run equilibrium dynamic between these variables is essential to correctly explain credit spread...