In Chapter 3 we considered the simpler case of geometric Brownian motion plus jump-diffusion dynamics. In Chapter 4 we considered the case of stochastic volatility and jump-diffusion dynamics but in that case the volatility process was of the Heston type and the jumps were normally distributed....

The following sections are included:IntroductionThe Problem Statement — The Merton-Heston ModelThe Integral Transform SolutionThe Martingale RepresentationConclusionAppendixDeriving the Inhomogeneous PIDEVerifying Duhamel's PrincipleProof of Proposition 4.3 — Fourier Transform of the...

The Fourier cosine expansion approach (COS) is developed by Fang and Oosterlee (2008) using the Cosine series expansions of the value function at the next time level and the density function. The resulting equation is called the COS formula, due to the use of Fourier cosine series expansions....

We use a survey data set of 4348 SMEs from 25 European countries to analyze the association between the use of factoring as a form of SME financing and the legal environment of the country where in which they operate. Our findings indicate that firms operating in countries with legal...

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) challenges have changed the world of business and investment altogether. The business enterprises the world over have already started to recognize this fact and experimenting in several ways to explore newer business opportunities hidden therein. As a...

Using a new daily dataset for all stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange, we study the impact of information asymmetry during the liquidity freeze and market run of October 1907 - one of the most severe financial crises of the 20th century. We estimate that the run on the market increased...

The objective of this study is twofold: (i) to estimate the equilibrium real exchange rate (RER) from a long-run perspective and calculate the degree of overvaluation for the period 1972–2007, and (ii) to test the Dutch Disease hypothesis concerning the effect of capital flows on the RER in...

After the 2008 financial crash governments and central banks had to rescue banks which had become insolvent or illiquid, and whose failure threatened the Western financial system. The bill for this taxpayer funded bailout came to over USD 20 trillion globally, including assistance from US, EU,...

Although internal policy mismanagements can be cited in most recent emerging market crises, they seldom account fully for the severity of these crises. The reluctance of international investors to provide the resources that would limit the extent of the reversal almost invariably plays a key...

The market portfolio is in one sense the least important portfolio to provide to investors. In an J-agent one-period stochastic endowment economy, where preferences are quadratic, a social-welfare-minded contract designer would never create a contract that would allow trading the market...