Under uncertainty and irreversibly, real option-based models are widely accepted for assessing investment projects. So far the existing post-tax analyzes do not provide a general analytical description of investor reactions towards profit tax rate changes. This paper sets out to fill part of the...

This article deals with the integration of taxes into real option-based investment models under risk neutrality and risk aversion. It compares two possible approaches -- dynamic programming and contingent claims analysis -- to analyze their effects on the optimal investment rules before and...

We build a simple economic model of optimal casualty insurance based on a story about insuring a house. With endogenous repair and a securities market that is complete over states distinguished by security payoffs, we have three main findings in our base model with additively separable...

In contrast to insurance companies, regulatory authorities or regulators can obtain only limited information about the companies' value. It hence leads to some effects on the regulation design, which is however often overlooked in the literature. This paper characterizes the limited/imperfect...

This paper analyzes and discusses the effects of model misspecification associated with both interest rate and mortality risk on the hedging decisions of insurance companies. We consider hedging strategies in different instruments (zero bonds) which are risk- (variance-) minimizing with respect...

Imposing a symmetry condition on returns, Carr and Lee (Math Financ 19(4):523–560, <CitationRef CitationID="CR10">2009</CitationRef>) show that (double) barrier derivatives can be replicated by a portfolio of European options and can thus be priced using fast Fourier techniques (FFT). We show that prices of barrier derivatives in...</citationref>

The probability of a Brownian motion with drift to remain between two constant barriers (for some period of time) is known explicitly. In mathematical finance, this and related results are required, for example, for the pricing of single-barrier and double-barrier options in a Black–Scholes...

Using a unique proprietary data set of 460 realized buyouts completed between 1990 and 2005, we examine the risk appetite of private equity (PE) sponsors in different states of the PE market and analyze key determinants of deal-level equity risk. We develop a new approach to mathematically model...