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Banks should evaluate whether a borrower is likely to default. The author applies several techniques in the extensive mathematical literature of stochastic optimal control/dynamic programming to derive an optimal debt in an environment where there are risks on both the asset and liabilities...
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Creditors, banks and bank regulators should evaluate whether a borrower is likely to default. I apply several techniques in the extensive mathematical literature of stochastic optimal control/dynamic programming to derive an optimal debt in an environment where there are risks on both the asset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919000
A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price bubble led to the financial crisis that started in 2007. There is a large empirical literature concerning the relation between asset price bubbles and financial crises. I evaluate...
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landholders under uncertainty about the value of environmental services and irreversible development. We study land conversion … Government to induce adequate participation in a conservation plan. We study the impact of uncertainty on the optimal conversion … of deforestation. Interestingly, we show that uncertainty, even if it induces conversion postponement in the short …
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This paper considers the problem of changing prices over time to maximize expected revenues in the presence of unknown demand distribution parameters. It provides and compares several methods that use the sequence of past prices and observed demands to set price in the current period. A Taylor...
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We find that macroeconomic uncertainty plays a significant role in U.S. monetary policy. First, we construct a measure … of uncertainty as felt by policymakers at the time of making their rate-setting decisions. This measure is derived from a … of being in a high-uncertainty regime. Second, we estimate a monetary policy reaction function that, apart from …
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Cross-sector labor reallocation is associated with costs at the micro level ranging from the costs of geographical relocation and skill change/adaptation to unemployment. We show that monotonous reallocation paths minimize the aggregate reallocation costs in the three-sector framework (relating...
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This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of college major, and whether to complete their degree at...
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I use a forward-looking and exogenous measure of price uncertainty to examine the causative effect of uncertainty on … and financial frictions play in that relationship. In private loans, high uncertainty leads to more and tighter financial … covenants linked to performance. Risk management attenuates the effect of uncertainty on the inclusion of financial covenants …
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The Kyoto Protocol on climate change allocates tradable quotas to developed countries, but let them free to choose the means to respect their quota. There are good reasons for a country not to control its firms through internationally tradable permits. We thus compare a tax and purely domestic...
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