Assuming a risk-neutral bank and assuming household utility to be exponential, we show how under information symmetry …

risk management …

firms and concludes that both the size and book-to-market effects are related to default risk. For example, small firms earn … higher return than big firms only if they have higher default risk and value stocks earn higher returns than growth stocks if … their default risk is high. In this paper we use a more advanced compound option pricing model for the computation of …

Econometrics of Individual Risk is the first book to provide a complete econometric methodology for quantifying and managing this … underappreciated but important variety of risk. The book presents a course in the econometric theory of individual risk illustrated by … empirical examples. And, unlike other texts, it is focused entirely on solving the actual individual risk problems businesses …