Since 1990, there has been substantial debate in both the popular press and academic materials about earnings management by multinational companies and the capital markets (ie. microstructure; raising capital) effects of their rampant uses of Dividend-Equivalent Rights (“DERs”) and...

This article addresses decision-making parameters in machine-learning algorithms, and more specifically, critiques the mathematical explanation for the Hipster Effect (a group of evolutionary processes), and discusses implications for portfolio management and corporate bankruptcy prediction (two...

The recovery rate on defaulted corporate bonds has a time-varying distribution. We propose machine learning approaches for intertemporal analysis of U.S. corporate bonds' recovery rates with a large number of predictors. The most informative macroeconomic variables are selected from a broad...