In this study, we examine whether changes in the investment opportunityset stemming from interest rate and credit risks are priced in the US, theUK and the Swiss equity premia by estimating both two-factor and three-factor versions of Merton’s ICAPM. The systematic pricing of credit riskis...

In empirical modeling, there have been two strands for pricing in the options literature, namely the parametric and nonparametric models. Often, the support for the nonparametric methods is based on a benchmark such as theBlack-Scholes model with constant volatility. In this paper, we examine...

We build a two-factor structural model of default where the stock market index is one of the stochastic factors. In the model, we allow the firm to adjust its leverage in response to changes in the firm value and changes in the business climate, for which the return of the stock market index...

n this study, we examine the level of stock market integration and the impact of sovereign risk on the pricing of European equity markets since the introduction of the euro. We use a multivariate GARCH(1,1)-M return generating model allowing for partial market integration in which sovereign risk...

We use an expected utility framework to integrate the hedge funds survival uncertainty into an asset allocation optimizartion model. The addition of investment constraints complicates the resolution of the optimal allocation problem. It is solved using a genetic algorithm that mimics the...

This study focuses on a sensible issue in the hedge fund industry, namely the performance persistence of hedge fund managers.We first analyse the existence of relative performance persistence among individual hedge funds on a cumulative return basis. It is shown that the Specialist Credit and...

In this paper, we propose to study a hedge funds allocation problem. A typical feature of those alternative investments vehicles is their propensity to cease their activity after experiencing a distressing situation. We use an expected utility framework to integrate the hedge funds survival...

This study focuses on two problems that affect the choice of alternative investments, that is the style consistency of the manager and his survival probability. We first present a new quantitative approach to describe fund managers style consistency. We show, through hard and fuzzy clustering,...