, borrowers take on less risk exposure than non-borrowers. A larger risk exposure by borrowers may occur as well, however …, borrowers' default policies render binary options useful instruments for lenders in hedging the credit-risk component of their … and volatility in contrast to the exogenously assumed constant mean and volatility in many credit risk models. We consider …

hedger, guided by the traditional minimum-variance criterion, aims at reducing the risk of a non-tradable asset or a … generalized "Greeks," familiar in risk management applications, as well as retaining the intuitive features of their static …

interaction between two risk-averse managers in continuous time, characterizing analytically their unique equilibrium dynamic … opponent’s risk attitude. Hence, client investors, concerned about how a strategic manager may trade on their behalf, should …

international portfolio investments, such as relative market liquidity and relative risk characteristics of assets, are also …

Recent empirical work suggests a strong connection between the incentives money managers are offered and their risk … riskiness of the portfolio. This represents a departure from the existing literature on agency theory in that moral hazard is … not only effort exertion but also risk taking behavior. The moral hazard problem with risk taking involves an incentive …