We consider a risk-averse entrepreneur who invests in a project with idiosyncratic risk. In contrast to the literature, we assume the entrepreneur is unable to get a loan from a bank directly because of the low creditability of the entrepreneur and so an innovative financial contract, named...

This paper finds that a newly created equity-for-guarantee swap can significantly increase a firm’s value. If the firm earns more/less in a recession/boom market, the guarantee cost will decrease. The greater the business risk is, the more the guarantee cost will decrease and the higher the...

We study an equilibrium pricing of a new invented equity-for-guarantee swap and optimal capital structure of a firm, which enters into the swap. We present closed-form corporate security prices and guarantee cost, the percentage of the firm's equity allocated by the firm/borrower to an insurer...

We consider the utility-based pricing of corporate securities and optimal capital structure including contingent convertible bond (CCB). We derive the semi-closed-form solutions of the implied values of corporate securities without bankruptcy costs and taxes. Our numerical simulations show that...

We develop a dynamic tradeoff model that incorporates both controlling-minority shareholders conflict and shareholders-debtholders conflict to examine the relationship among agency conflicts, expansion investment, capital structure, and debt renegotiation. We show that balancing the two...