The financial crisis of 2007-2008 led to extraordinary government intervention in firms and markets. The scope and depth of government action rivaled that of the Great Depression. Many traded markets experienced dramatic declines in liquidity leading to the existence of conditions normally...

Retail or consumer deposit pricing has only recently been fully deregulated. Subsequently, there has been little academic work done on the pricing of such deposits or the interest rate risk posed by such deposit balances. In this thesis we address the pricing of retail deposits in a dynamic,...

In Chapter I, the firm's accounts receivable sales decision is modeled both in the case where it is constrained to sell the entire receivable (factoring) and in the case where it has the flexibility to sell a portion of the receivable (receivables securitization.) It is found that because of a...