We study in this paper the considerations that should be taken into account in the decision of currency decomposition of debt. The problem we are addressing in this paper is what should be the differential credit spread for a given firm, whether it issues bonds in local currency or in a foreign...

We propose a new approach to dynamic representation of different groups of stakeholders on the board of directors. This approach is based on a simple economic model of the firm, with an objective function to maximize its market value. We look at the marginal claim of each stakeholder on the...

Evidence from equity markets worldwide indicates that the Day-of-the-Week anomaly appears to fade from the first moment of the distribution of daily returns. We report highly significant pair-wise weekend effects in high moments when comparing the first and last trading days of the week. The...

This paper documents a puzzling observed anomaly in the relative value of a liquid and comparable illiquid asset. During a prolonged period of time Government T-bills provided a higher Yield to Maturity than an equally risky illiquid asset (bank deposits). This cannot be attributed to taxes,...

We document significant intra-year and less significant intra-week seasonality in outliers of Samp;P500 daily returns. Controlling for outliers in dummy regressions reveals that 1) Monday's mean returns turn from insignificantly to significantly positive and insignificantly higher than all...

Many bankruptcy codes implicitly or explicitly contain net-worth covenants, which provide the firm's bondholders with the right to force reorganization or liquidation if the value of the firm falls below a certain threshold. In practice, however, default does not necessarily lead to immediate...

Banks worldwide are subject to increasing regulation and, simultaneously, find themselves under the close scrutiny of market analysts and screening of large institutional investors. Banks are required to maintain minimal equity relative to both total and risky assets, market analysts expect...

This paper documents that government T-bills provided a higher Yield to Maturity than an equally risky illiquid asset (bank deposits) in Israel. This cannot be attributed to taxes, risk or transaction costs. We relate our finding to the Myopic Loss Aversion literature (MLA) and suggest that the...

The corporate tax claim of the government is internalized in the analysis of the corporation's capital structure. In this framework the M-M Propositions are rederived. In the proposed approach, the current value of the firm is calculated on a before-tax basis, and is equal to the sum of present...

We estimate post-jump volatility-decay risk premia as the predictable ‎difference between periods of high and low diffusive volatility. By ‎constructing straddle portfolios after positive and negative jumps occur, we ‎show that the gains that these hedged options' portfolios yield...