We examine the puzzling negative relation between financial distress risk and the cross-section of expected returns. We … most recent distress risk shocks to which investors initially underreact, causing temporary overpricing of distressed … stocks. In the long run, the relation between distress risk and returns reflects the positive risk premium as distress risk …

firms and concludes that both the size and book-to-market effects are related to default risk. For example, small firms earn … higher return than big firms only if they have higher default risk and value stocks earn higher returns than growth stocks if … their default risk is high. In this paper we use a more advanced compound option pricing model for the computation of …

on insolvency risk will be defined by recalling the concepts of Cash Flow-at-Risk and Capital-at-Risk. A first check on … through a simulation model. The scenario analysis allows us to examine how financial and risk policies oriented by insolvency …This conceptual paper focuses on the relationship between insolvency, capital structure, and value creation. The aim is …