This paper examines the unique ability of The Model: a structural credit risk model proposed in Buellesbach (2015), to match the market in ways unmatched by other well-known structural models. The Model demonstrates the capacity to accurately value firms' equity and debt across the entire credit...

Should employers pay their employees better? Although this question might appear provoking because lowering production costs remains a cornerstone of the contemporary economy, we present new evidence highlighting the benefits a company might reap by paying its employees better. We introduce an...

We test the performance of popular option strategies in the Nordic power derivative market using 12 years of data. We find that protective put strategies outperform long forward and covered call strategies on risk-adjusted basis, because the payoff function of the protective put seems a good fit...

The capital structure irrelevance argument of Modigliani and Miller (1958) implies that the use of debt or leases should have no impact on firm values. This classical argument leaves out several important considerations crucial for the result, in particular, counterparty credit risk. We...

Russian Abstract: В статье рассматриваются основные методы оценки стоимости корпоративных прав голоса и проводится эмпирическое тестирование нового метода,...

This paper provides a comprehensive review of scholarly research on credit risk measurement during the last 57 years applying bibliometric citation analysis and elaborates an agenda for future research. The bibliography is compiled using the ISI Web of Science database and includes all articles...

Pushing models to extremes can expose output biases that stem from underlying assumptions. In the case of industry standard option valuation models, long term, high volatility securities provide a stress test vehicle. For instance, in evaluating a stock with 60% volatility, industry standard...

R&D is often a highly uncertain venture where experiments achieve successful outcomes on an extraordinarily rare basis. Just one successful product could change the future of a company; the discovery stage can often be an invaluable or disastrous experience. We develop a real R&D option model...

The delta-gamma approximation is well-known and used extensively in risk management and portfolio hedging. This approximation is a local version, by some polynomial of second order, the derivative price change between a given time period. Despite of its importance in practice, there are only...

Let us consider a portfolio made by a risky asset and cash. Any (individual) investor in such a portfolio is faced with two problems. She may ask about the possible returns whenever the asset relative change is expected to vary inside a given interval. Conversely, she might lead to determine the...