Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Models for Discontinuous Markets -- Risk Models and Model Risk -- Time-Invariant Models and Crisis -- Ergodic Stationarity in Classical Time Series Analysis -- Recalibration Does Not Overcome the Limits of a...

This paper considers a two-stage sequential investment problem where the principal wishes to cancel the project if it fails in the first stage. Suppose that only the first-stage agent can observe the outcome in the first stage. There are two organizational forms to choose from: integration,...