This paper investigates the price for contingent claims in a dual expected utility theory framework, the dual price, considering arbitrage-free nancial markets. A pricing formula is obtained for contingent claims written on n underlying assets following general Itô processes and without any...

The aim of this paper is to present a two-factor pricing model for convertible bonds, paying particular attention to the impact of volatility in the valuation process as suggested in previous studies. The model here proposed is discrete and the sources of uncertainty are the risk-free spot rate...

In this paper the dynamic portfolio selection problem is studied for the first time in a dual utility theory framework. The Wang transform is used as distortion function and well diversified optimal portfolios result both with and without short sales allowed.

<title>Abstract</title> Following the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 volatility of daily returns of the US stock market rose sharply. This increase in volatility may reflect fundamental changes in the economic determinants of prices such as expected earnings, interest rates, real growth and...

Following the attack on the World Trade Center on 9/11 volatility of daily returns of the US stock market rose sharply. This increase in volatility may reflect fundamental changes in the economic determinants of prices such as expected earnings, interest rates, real growth and inflation. In...

The object of this paper is to investigate the role of interest rate risk measures set out in an immunization theory framework for the control of the hedge effectiveness test, as specified in IAS 39. In particular, the case of a cash flow hedge is analyzed and attention is drawn to how the use...

Questo lavoro propone due modelli per la valutazione di obbligazioni convertibili in ipotesi stocastica della struttura per scadenza e del valore dell'azienda nelle cui azioni il titolo può essere convertito. I modelli proposti vengono sviluppati in ipotesi di dipendenza tra i processi...

In recent years both practitioners and academics have realised that traditional discounted cash flow models erroneously consider the option value embedded in firms. Hence equity and debt valuation methodologies based on option theory have recently become quite popular. Such methodologies take...

This paper investigates the price for contingent claims in a dual expected utility theory framework, the dual price, considering complete arbitrage-free nancial markets. In this framework this dual price is obtained, for the rst time in the literature, without any comonotonicity hypothesis and...