Valuing early-stage high-technology growth-oriented companies is a challenge to current valuation methodologies. This inability to come up with robust point estimates of value should not and does not lead to a breakdown of market liquidity: instead, efforts are redirected towards the design of...

Valuing early-stage high-technology growth-oriented companies is a challenge to current valuation methodologies. Efforts are redirected towards the design of investment contracts which materially skew the distribution of payoffs in favor of the venture investors. In effect, limitations in...

Valuing early-stage high-technology growth-oriented companies is a challenge to current valuation methodologies. This inability to come up with robust point estimates of value should not and does not lead to a breakdown of market liquidity: Instead, efforts are redirected towards the design of...

This paper presents a utility-based approach to value the borrower optimal behavior in presence of credit risk. The paper solves for the dynamic portfolio choices of a borrower. We thereby show that the presence of debt leads to a substantial modification in the borrower's behavior across states...

The paper develope a models for evaluating the optimal hedging and trading strategies under default risk mitigation policies. It deals with an exchange traded derivative Instrument, i.e. future contracts but ures can succeed in locking the asset value, but they may create two additional risks...