Bharath and Shumway (2008) provide evidence that shows that it is the functional form of Merton’s (1974) distance to default (DD) model that makes it useful and important for predicting defaults. In this paper, we investigate whether the default predictability of the Merton DD model would be...

This paper examines the unique ability of The Model: a structural credit risk model proposed in Buellesbach (2015), to match the market in ways unmatched by other well-known structural models. The Model demonstrates the capacity to accurately value firms' equity and debt across the entire credit...

We report evidence that salience may have economically significant effects on homeowners' borrowing behavior, through a bias in favour of less salient but more costly loans. We outline a simple model in which some consumers are biased. Under plausible assumptions, the bias may affect prices in...