We build a general model for pricing defaultable claims. In addition to the usual ab-sence of arbitrage assumption, we assume that one defaultable asset (at least) looses value when thedefault occurs. We prove that under this assumption, in some standard market ltrations, defaulttimes are...

Today's primarily mathematically oriented arbitrage theory does not address some economicallyimportant aspects of pricing. These are, rst, the implicit conjecture that thereis \the" price of a portfolio, second, the exact formulation of no{arbitrage, price reproduction,and positivity of the...

This paper identifies the macroeconomic factors that influence Italian equity returns and tests the stability of their relation with securities returns. In the sixteen-year period that has been analyzed the relation between stock returns and the macroeconomic factors is found to be highly...