Sustaining efficiency and stability by properly controlling the equity to asset ratio is one of the most important and difficult challenges in bank management. Due to unexpected and abrupt decline of asset values, a bank must closely monitor its net worth as well as market conditions, and one of...

We solve two optimal stopping problems whose payoR functions are the maximum and the minimum of two state variables driven by the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. We consider a class of problems where we obtain analytical solutions. Furthermore, by making use of the analytical results we study some...