In this paper, we propose a theoretical model in which a banking crisis (or bank distress) causes declines in the aggregate productivity. When borrowing firms need additional bank loans to continue their businesses, a high probability of bank failure discourages ex ante investments (i.e.,...

This paper empirically investigates which event can affect stock pricing through equity repurchases, the announcement of board meetings, the approval by general meetings of stockholders, or the incident of actual purchases, thereby clarifying the motivation behind equity repurchases. In...

This paper examines corporate revival processes in Japan. In recent years, corporate revival processes are drastically changing in Japan. For example, important bankruptcy laws have been revised and Industrial Revitalization Corporation was established. Moreover, many corporate revival funds are...

In 2005, Japanese firms were allowed to introduce the anti-takeover amendments. By using of the data of 2005, this paper examined the incentives and effects of anti-takeover amendments in Japan. It has shown that the performances of the ATA introduced firms dropped in 2005 fiscal year. These...

All the financial practitioners are working in incomplete markets full of unhedgeable risk-factors. Making the situation worse, they are only equipped with the imperfect information on the relevant processes. In addition to the market risk, fund and insurance managers have to be prepared for...

In the paper, we propose a new calculation scheme for American options in the framework of a forward backward stochastic di erential equation (FBSDE). The well-known decomposition of an American option price with that of a European option of the same maturity and the remaining early exercise...

This paper presents a new asymptotic expansion method for pricing continuously monitoring barrier options. In particular, we develops a semi-group expansion scheme for the Cauchy-Dirichlet problem in the second-order parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) arising in barrier option...

A graph-theoretic framework is developed to study decentralized settlement in a general payment network. This paper argues settlement efficiency through examining how much settlement fund needs to be provided to settle all given obligations. Observing that required amount of settlement fund...

Standard New Keynesian models have often neglected temporary sales. In this paper, we ask whether this treatment is appropriate. In the empirical part of the paper, we provide evidence using Japanese scanner data covering the last two decades that the frequency of sales was closely related with...