This paper introduces serial defaults in the structural model of Jeanneret (2015. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 50, 963-985). We consider a government that can default multiple times, deciding endogenously the default thresholds and the optimal leverage. Under the extended...

In the barrier option model of corporate security valuation, the firm’s creditors impose a default-triggering barrier on the firm value to protect their claim. Two disputed issues in the literature are whether the implied default barrier is positive, and whether it is above or below the book...

We develop a structural model that accounts for guarantor risk and state-dependent withdrawals that induce liquidity funding costs for the bank. The severity of these costs increases near the default barrier, where depositors run on the bank for fear of a costly recovery. The introduced...

We infer the asset value dynamics of European firms during the Russia-Ukraine war via the structural model of Merton (1974). Using high-frequency stock price data, we find that the war led to lower corporate security prices and higher asset volatility, eventually shifting asset values closer to...

The barrier options theory of corporate security valuation is applied to the contingent claims of a regulated bank. The regulator/insurer of a bank owns a down-and-in call option on the bank assets which can be balanced against the expected coverage cost. Raising the regulatory barrier (critical...

The (S,s) model of inventories is a robust alternative to production smoothing theories. Despite the apparent usefulness of the model, exhaustive testing has been lacking in the literature. This note employs a recently published econometric methodology to test the (S,s) model and provide...