Payout flexibility from share repurchases enables firms to reduce dilution and funding cost of stock option grants. Using daily repurchase disclosures, we show that U.K. firms use this flexibility to implement (a) large repurchase payouts, (b) with increased frequency, and (c) with lower daily...

This study empirically explores the dynamic relation between the environmental and social (ES) performance of a firm and its stock market returns. We find robust evidence that worse stock market performance increases firms' efforts on ES activities. We show these patterns are present in firms...

This paper studies the Continuous Workout Mortgage (CWM), a two in one product: a fixed rate home loan coupled with negative equity insurance, to advocate its viability in mitigating financial fragility. In order to tackle the many issues that CWMs embrace, we perform a range of tasks. We...

Asset price volatility appears to be more persistent than can be captured by individual, short memory, autoregressive or moving average components. Fractional integration offers a very parsimonious and tempting formulation of this long memory property of volatility but other explanations such as...

The aim of this paper is to establish a basic framework of financing with a highly flexible instrument, of Participating Mortgages (PMs), to improve the efficiency of the financial system. We distinguish these from convertible mortgages and derive closed-form solutions to price a whole framework...

This paper distinguishes Participating Mortgages (PMs) from Convertible Mortgages. We study variants of PMs to demonstrate that they have the potential of improving the efficiency of a financial system. We resort to closed-form formulae to price profit caps and floors identified in variants of...

This paper distinguishes Participating Mortgages (PMs) from Convertible Mortgages. We study variants of PMs to demonstrate that they have the potential of improving the efficiency of a financial system. We resort to closed-form formulae to price profit caps and floors identified in variants of...

We examine the short-run relationship between stock-return volatility and daily equity trading by several investor groups in the Korean Stock Exchange. We also investigate whether trade characteristics and trading styles can explain the potential distinct volatility effects of these investor...

Investors face similar macroeconomic risks and opportunities regardless of their individual investment preferences. To best navigate growth and inflation concerns, we propose building macro factor-mimicking portfolios diversified across asset classes and style factors. We focus on the macro...