In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, the legal system struggles to effectively regulate forwarding market professionals — broker-dealers and investment advisers who invest client funds with third parties. Defining the fiduciary duties these forwarding market professionals owe their...

We consider the role of the nonrecourse financing of securitization by a financial institution (FI). Our model suggests that even though the FI has the opportunity to provide liquidity support afterward, it is optimal for the FI to use the nonrecourse financing of securitization initially,...

Discussion of Islamic private equity PE financing modes rarely provide detailed analytical insights into their properties: there is no rigorous analysis of their features. The current paper analyzes how Profit Loss Sharing (PLS) financing methods solve asymmetric information problem. We focus on...

In our research project “The Global Venture Capital and Private Equity Country Attractiveness Index” we tackle the question where institutional investors should best allocate their venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) exposure. In this project, we have calculated an index in its...

We introduce a new approach to model the market smile for inflation-linked derivatives by defining the Quadratic Gaussian Year-on-Year inflation model -- the QGY model. We directly define the model in terms of a year-on-year ratio of the inflation index on a discrete tenor structure, which,...

Many companies continue to go public with takeover defenses even though institutional investors zealously oppose defenses in public companies. In this Article, I analyze the determinants of takeover defenses at IPO firms using an empirical analysis of 259 IPOs from 2008-12, interviews with...

This paper extends the standard Merton portfolio choice model to include illiquid private equity funds. This is done in a realistic modeling framework where private equity funds cannot be traded during their entire bounded lifecycle and involve capital commitments and intermediate capital...

The central counterparties dominating the market for the clearing of over-the-counter interest rate and credit derivatives are globally systemic. Employing methodologies similar to the calculation of banks' capital requirements against trading book exposures, this paper assesses the sensitivity...

Despite having several challenges in implementing certain provisions to combat global financial malfunctioning, the fate of Dodd-Frank Act seems positive with the reelection of Obama in the United States. This article tries to explore some of the recent regulatory affairs in the backdrop of the...

The central counterparties dominating the market for the clearing of over-the-counter interest rate and credit derivatives are globally systemic. Employing methodologies similar to the calculation of banks' capital requirements against trading book exposures, this paper assesses the sensitivity...