This paper is concerned with the valuation and analysis of risky debt instruments with arbitrary interest and principal payments subject to default risk. For the valuation, we use a risk-neutral present value model with expected payments for risk-neutral investors and risk-free spot rates. The...

On 19th March 2009, several national newspapers in Austria reported on a “turbo scandal” that had been suspected on the Vienna Stock Exchange for several years. Concerned investors argued that the issuers of turbo certificates tried to raid the underlying prices of these down-and-out call...

Main description: Die großen Fortschritte in der Optimierungstheorie in den letzten Jahrzehnten haben einen nachhaltigen Einfluss auf die Betriebswirtschaftslehre ausgeübt. Vor allem die Formulierung von Entscheidungsmodellen wurde durch diese Entwicklung forciert, so dass heute die...

This paper is concerned with the valuation and analysis of default-risky debt instruments with arbitrary interest and principal payments. For the valuation, we use three nested multivariate extensions of the standard Merton (1974) model for pricing risky zero-coupon bonds. First, we present a...