We study the effect of rollover risk on the risk of default using a comprehensive database of U.S. industrial firms during 1986–2013 This article is the most thoroughgoing empirical research to date to support the existence of a rollover risk effect on the risk of default. A one standard...

We build a Real Options model to assess the importance of private provision and the impact of expropriation risk on investment timing, investment volumes, governmental costs and social welfare. We consider two types of businesses (essential and non essential businesses) and two stages (operating...

The aim of this paper is twofold: First to test the adequacy of Pareto distributions to describe the tail of financial returns in emerging and developed markets, and second to study the possible correlation between stock market indices observed returns and return's extreme distributional...

Given the evidence provided by Longstaff (1995), and Pena, Rubio and Serna (1999) a serious candidate to explain the pronounced pattern of volatility estimates across exercise prices might be related to liquidity costs. Using all calls and puts transacted between 16:00 and 16:45 on the Spanish...

Most real world market participants are professional portfolio managers (PPM), which means that they are not managing their own money, but rather managing money for other people (e.g. mutual funds, pension funds). This situation generates an agency feature which has relevant consequences, as...

The objective of this paper is twofold. The first is to incorporate mental accounting, loss aversion, asymmetric risk-taking behavior, and probability weighting in a multi-period portfolio optimization for individual investors. While these behavioral biases have previously been identified in the...

Recent literature has advocated that risk-taking behavior is influenced by prior monetary gains and losses. On one hand, after perceiving monetary gains, people are willing to take more risk (house-money effect). Another stream of the literature, based on prospect theory and loss aversion,...

Standard models of moral hazard predict a negative relationship between risk and incentives; however empirical studies on mutual funds present mixed results. In this paper, we propose a behavioral principal-agent model in the context of professional managers, focusing on active and passive...