In this paper, we establish a comparison between one of the most traded financial derivatives in the markets, the so-called catastrophe bonds (abbreviated as cat bonds) and the corporate bonds. In the first section, we start from a brief definition as well as some basic concepts. In section two,...

In this paper, we present effect of the liquidity on risky bonds pricing. The liquidity effect is represented by the adjustment to the single price format. We begin with bid-ask pricing format and it helps to observe effect of the liquidity on each step of pricing. In the first section, we...

I extend the application of Bandi and Tamoni (2014)'s time series decomposition to other asset classes, such as fixed income, credit and credit derivatives, and other models, such as the Fama and French three factor model. I document a significant increase in R squared from using the...