Banks are often accused to bias their information documents in order to exploit less sophisticated investors. This paper analyzes the sales prospectus scenarios created by banks to demonstrate their structured financial products for retail investors. Based on a broad data-set of prospectuses in...

We propose a method to estimate the cost of debt in a continuous-time framework with an infinite time horizon. The approach builds on the class of well-known earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT)-based models. It extends other approaches based on option-pricing theory with a finite...