In a naked credit default swap (CDS) position, a party pays an income stream to a seller of protection to swap away default risk on an underlying defaultable security without actually holding this reference instrument. Using mark-to-market returns on a large cross section of CDS positions, held...

In a well developed financial market with liquid short term fixed income trading, the volatility of short term fixed income securities forms a continuous spectrum that converges to zero, the volatility of riskless asset. This means that the attainable combinations of risky assets contain the...

There has been constant debate about the predictability of the security markets. We examine the relationship between the prices of a stock and its convertible bond during the Hong Kong stock market bubble of 1997 and its subsequent crash. We find that the price behavior of the share and the...

The current financial crisis has brought into sharp focus the need for robust empirical analysis of bank default prediction models. The contagion currently affecting the banking sector has its roots in traditional banking crises, i.e. inflated asset valuations and poor risk management. The...

At the end of 2009, countries in the Eurozone began to experience a sudden divergence of bond yields as the perceived prospect of sovereign default risk increased. This paper examines the potential spillovers between the liquidity of the sovereign credit default swap (CDS) market and the...

At the end of 2009, countries in the Eurozone (euro area) began to experience a sudden divergence of bond yields as the market perception of sovereign default risk increased. The theory of complete markets suggests that sovereign debt and credit default swap (CDS) credit spreads should track...

This study investigates the relationship between capital structure and the private benefits of control of listed Chinese firms. A sample of firms listed on the Chinese stock markets is used to estimate the private benefits of control. The private benefits of control are approximately 18% (on...

This study investigates the relationship between capital structure and the private benefits of control of listed Chinese firms. A sample of firms listed on the Chinese stock markets is used to estimate the private benefits of control. The private benefits of control are approximately 18% (on...

Stochastic volatility models such as those of Heston (1993) and Hull and White (1987) are often used to model volatility risk in the pricing and hedging of contingent claims on risky assets. Some recent empirical evidence has shown that these models under general specifications often do not...