In the standard approach to fund valuation, it is often assumed that markets are perfectly liquid and hence assets have unique prices. In practice, however, as has been widely documented, this is not the case. Asset values are impacted by deterioration of market liquidity (market depth)....

This paper develops a framework to estimate the probability of default (PD) implied in listed stock options. The underlying option pricing model measures PD as the intensity of the jump diffusion that the underlying stock price becomes zero. We adopt a two stage calibration algorithm to obtain...

Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance (CPPI) is a significant and highly popular investment strategy within the structured product market. This has led to recent work which attempts to explain the popularity of CPPI by showing that it is compatible with Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT). We...