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Households, financial intermediaries and ultimately even businesses all rely on savings deposits. On the one hand … context. On balance, we find the share of savings deposits in households’ total financial wealth to have remained broadly …, savings deposits constitute a central pillar of precautionary saving; they play an important role in individual saving for old …
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For decades, the academic literature has focused on three survey measures of expected inflation: the Livingston Survey, the Survey of Professional Forecasters, and the Michigan Survey. While these measures have been useful in developing models of forecasting inflation, the data are low frequency...
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In this paper, we consider the measurement and pricing of distress risk.We present a model of corporate failure in which accounting and market-based measures forecast the likelihood of future financial distress. Our best model is more accurate than leading alternative measures of corporate...
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Limited liability debt financing of irreversible investments can affect investment timing through an entrepreneur …'s option value, even after compensating a lender for expected default losses. This non-neutrality of debt arises from an … exogenously given an entrepreneur's use of debt. Intuitively, limited liability lowers downside risk for the entrepreneur by …
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In a recent article, Keen resumes the debate with Krugman about the effects of debt upon the economy. It is hard to see …
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Limited liability debt financing of irreversible investments can affect investment timing through an entrepreneur …'s option value, even after compensating a lender for expected default losses. This non-neutrality of debt arises from an …'s use of debt. Intuitively, limited liability lowers downside risk for the entrepreneur by truncating the lower tail of …
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debt which can be used by companies, and that is the bonds credit. So that, after a short presentation of the framework in … which this debt method can be used, there are presented the conditions that have to be fulfilled so that a company could … have access on the bonds market. Then there is briefly presented a parallel between the mechanism of forming the capital …
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Recently regulated Brazilian life and pension products offer a benefit structure composed of minimum guaranteed annual rate, inflation adjustment according to a price index and participation on an investment fund performance. We present a valuation model for these products. We establish a fair...
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Premiums and benefits associated with traditional life insurance contracts are usually specified as fixed amounts in policy conditions. However, reserve-dependent surrender values and reserve-dependent expenses are common in insurance practice. The famous Cantelli theorem in life insurance...
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