This dissertation consists of three independent papers. The first paper investigates the role of incomplete investor information in financial innovations. We analyze the information that structured product issuers provide to the investors and find that issuers have an information advantage over...

A start of a modern-era financial innovation on capital and financial markets is usually dated around the 1970s. Drawing on two broad assumptions that (i) capital markets are important and (ii) hybrid securities are an important part of capital markets, since hybrid issues exist and continue...