The design of environmental trading systems induces specific features of the emission permit price dynamics. In this paper, we evaluate the performance of reduced-form models for emission markets that capture these features in a simplified way and are still feasible for calibration to permit...

This paper investigates the impact of the yearly announcement of realized emissions on the European carbon permit market. We find that this event generally leads to significant absolute abnormal returns on the event day, which are accompanied by increased trading volumes and high intraday...

This paper presents a stochastic equilibrium model for environmental markets that allows us to study the characteristic properties of emission permit prices induced by the design of today's cap-and-trade systems. We characterize emission permits as highly nonlinear contingent claims on...

The thesis studies index and equity option returns in perfect and imperfect markets to explain parts of the option mispricing puzzle. Perfect markets exist under informational efficiency, market completeness and frictionless trading. The thesis shows that an option-implied risk-adjusted approach...

This paper develops a simple model for a leveraged firm and endogenizes the firm's bankruptcy point by assuming that equity issuance is costly. Equity-issuance costs reflect the difficulties in issuing new equity for firms that are close to financial distress. The resulting model captures...

This paper empirically studies the risk structure of interest rates for Deutschemark-denominated bonds. For this purpose, we estimate term structures of interest rates using the parsimonious fitting function of Nelson and Siegel (1987) for virtually risk free Government bonds and five different...

This paper empirically studies the risk structure of interest rates for Deutschemark-denominated bonds. For this purpose, we estimate term structures of interest rates using the parsimonious fitting function of Nelson and Siegel (1987) for virtually riskfree Government bonds and five different...

With the introduction of the accounting standards FAS 123 and IFRS 2 for executive stock options an important change towards fair value accounting' has taken place. As companies are now forced to value their stock options at grant date for accounting purposes, the robustness of prices against...

With the introduction of the accounting standards FAS 123 and IFRS 2 for executive stock options an important change towards quot;fair value accountingquot; has taken place. As companies are now forced to value their stock options at grant date for accounting purposes, the robustness of prices...