Short-term financing, e.g., asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) or repurchase agreements (repo), was prevalent prior to the 2007-2008 financial crises. Banks funded by short-term debts, however, are exposed to rollover risk as the banks are unable to raise sufficient funds to finance their...

Short-term financing, e.g., asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) or repurchase agreements (repo), was prevalent prior to the 2007-2008 financial crises. Banks funded by short-term debts, however, are exposed to rollover risk as the banks are unable to raise sufficient funds to finance their...

A crucial assumption for the single-period representation of a portfolio's performance, namely, the Sharpe ratio, to be valid is the stationary in the distributions of a portfolio's excess returns R1,…,RT. In literature, the most often adopted stationary assumption is the i.i.d. excess returns...

The financial-ratio-based credit-scoring model for bond rating system requires the maximization of two conflicting objectives (i.e., the explanatory and discriminatory power, simultaneously), which had not been directly addressed in literature. The main purpose of this study is to develop a...