Equal-weighted (EW) portfolios have outperformed their value-weighted (VW) counterparts over multiple decades in various investment universes. This paper investigates the long-term evidence or the EW–VW return spread in a broad U.S. equity universe across multiple factor models....

This paper models Continuous Workout Mortgages (CWMs) in an economic environment with refinancings and prepayments by employing a market-observable variable such as the house price index of the pertaining locality. Our main results include: (a) explicit modelling of repayment and interest-only...

We analyse the entry decisions of competing firms in a two-player stochastic real option game, when rivals can exert different but correlated uncertain profitabilities from operating. In the presence of entry costs, decision thresholds exhibit hysteresis, the range of which is decreasing in the...

Insiders, including directors and managers, are instrumental in establishing corporate strategy and steering a firm’s direction. Our findings show a positive relation between insider horizon and a firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance. This positive relation is likely...

This paper describes four separate option types as special cases of Bermudans with general inter-exercise and time to final maturity. This produces a surface with European, finite American, infinite Bermudan and infinite American options as special cases. This allows <link rid="b13">Geske-Johnson (1984)</link>...

This paper offers a means to enhance the efficiency of the financial system in the form of Participating Mortgages (PMs) to make it more resilient and to mitigate systemic risk. We establish a basic setup to study the variants of PMs, distinguish them from convertible mortgages and derive...