Many SMEs and young entrepreneurs experience financing constraints due to their low credibility and information asymmetry. To this end, a partial guarantee agreement is popular with Chinese entrepreneurs. In this paper, we consider an SME with a funding gap, who wants to invest in a project, of...

We consider an entrepreneur who has no assets in place but possesses an option to invest in a project incurring a lump-sum investment cost, of which a fraction must be financed by entering into an equity-for-guarantee swap. The entrepreneur is exposed to macroeconomic risk as well as...

This paper addresses the investment and financing decisions of entrepreneurs entering into option-for-guarantee swaps (OGSs). OGSs significantly increase investment option value. Entrepreneurs initially accelerate their investments and then postpone them as funding gaps grow. Guarantee costs...

This paper considers a Sparre Andersen model in which the inter-claim times have a phase-type distribution and the premium rate is a step function depending on the current surplus level. We derive the system of piecewise integro-differential equations for the Gerber-Shiu discounted penalty...

FinTech makes numerous financial products accessible to common investors but up to now, there is no risk measure method specially customized for common investors instead of financial institutions which are generally too big to fail. This paper develops a hedging-based utility risk measure (HBU)...

This paper develops a general continuous-time evolutionary finance model with time-dependent strategies. It is shown that the continuous model, which is a limit of a general discrete model, is well-defined and if there exists one completely diversified strategy in the market, then there is no...