This paper addresses the investment and financing decisions of entrepreneurs entering into option-for-guarantee swaps (OGSs). OGSs significantly increase investment option value. Entrepreneurs initially accelerate their investments and then postpone them as funding gaps grow. Guarantee costs...

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...

This paper considers the pricing of contingent claims involved in two new swaps invented by Chinese entrepreneurs, the equity-for-guarantee swap (EGS) and the option-for-guarantee swap (OGS), when the cash flow of a firm that enters into the swaps follows a jump-diffusion process with jump sizes...

We consider a risk-averse entrepreneur who invests in a project with idiosyncratic risk and takes debt financing for diversification benefits. 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...