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Convertible Bonds: Risks and Optimal Strategies
Huang, Haishi - 2010
Within the structural approach for credit risk models we discuss the optimal exercise of the callable and convertible bonds. The Vasiček-model is applied to incorporate interest rate risk into the firm’s value process which follows a geometric Brownian motion. Finally, we derive pricing...
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Convertible Bonds: Default Risk and Uncertain Volatility
Huang, Haishi - 2010
Within a default intensity approach we discuss the optimal exercise of the callable and convertible bonds. Pricing bounds for convertible bonds are derived in an uncertain volatility model, i.e. when the volatility of the stock price process lies between two extreme values.
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Finance without probabilistic prior assumptions
Riedel, Frank - 2011
We develop the fundamental theorem of asset pricing in a probability-free infinite-dimensional setup. We replace the usual assumption of a prior probability by a certain continuity property in the state variable. Probabilities enter then endogenously as full support martingale measures (instead...
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Explaining Hedge Fund Investment Styles by Loss Aversion
Siegmann, Arjen; Lucas, André - 2002
Recent research reveals that hedge fund returns exhibit a range of different,possibly non-linear pay-off patterns. It is difficult to qualify all these patternssimultaneously as being rational in a traditional framework for optimal financial decisionmaking. In this paper we present a simple...
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Why is Price Discovery in Credit Default Swap Markets News-Specific?
Marsh, Ian W.; Wagner, Wolf - 2012
investors with hedging demands. In support of this explanation we find that the CDS-lag and its news-specificity are related to … various firm-level proxies for hedging demand in the cross-section as well measures for economy-wide informational asymmetries …
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Venture Capital, Convertible Securities und die Durchsetzung optimaler Exitregeln
Bascha, Andreas - 1998
Innovative Unternehmensgründungen werden in zunehmendem Maße von Venture Capital (VC) Gesellschaften finanziert, die mit dem Gebrauch spezieller Finanzierungsinstrumente die diversen Agencyprobleme dieser Situation zu bewältigen versuchen. Dieses Papier gibt einen Überblick über die...
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Corporate debt, hybrid securities and the effective tax rate
Panteghini, Paolo M. - 2008
In this article we use contingent-claim analysis to calculate the effective tax rate (ETR) under corporate debt finance. In particular, we deal with both pure debt and two of the most well-known hybrid securities, i.e., convertible, and reverse convertible bonds. We show that: 1) effective...
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A Note on Hedging a Loan Portfolio
Welzel, Peter; Broll, Udo - 2003
In the framework of the industrial economics approach to banking we extend the analysis of hedging against default on … loans to the case of two types of credit risk. Standard results on the optimal hedge volume and the hedging effectivity from …In the framework of the industrial economics approach to banking we extend the analysis of hedging against default on …
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Hedging with Credit Derivatives and its Strategic Role in Banking Competition
Pausch, Thilo; Schweimayer, Gerhard - 2004
The tremendous growth of markets for credit derivatives since the mid 1990's has raised questions regarding the role of these instruments in the banking in- dustry which is heavily exposed to credit risk. However, while recent literature mainly focused on pricing and optimal decisions regarding...
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Effectiveness of Hedging Strategies under Model Misspecification and Trading Restrictions
Dudenhausen, Antje - 2002
We consider a standard two-player all-pay auction with private values, where the valuation for the object is private information to each bidder. The crucial feature is that one bidder is favored by the allocation rule in the sense that he need not bid as much as the other bidder to win the...
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