We use a standard consumption-based asset pricing model incorporating conditioning information to explain the risk-return profile of currency carry trade portfolios. We use a scaled stochastic discount factor instead of scaled or managed portfolio returns as in previous work. Our conditioning...

We use a standard consumption-based asset pricing model incorporating conditioning information to explain the risk-return profile of currency carry trade portfolios. We use a scaled stochastic discount factor instead of scaled or managed portfolio returns as in previous work. Our conditioning...

Empirical studies of controlling corporate ownership typically face at least two difficulties: presumed stability of ownership that leads to low-powered tests and time-consuming hand-collection of data. We provide guidance for data collection and empirical design using simulation-based results...

We follow the financing choices over time of established companies with initial high profitability and low leverage, company by company. The behaviour of most suggests preference for low leverage or indifference to leverage so long as it is not excessive (debt/assets above 50%). Companies lever...

This paper investigates the large and diverse discounts in UK open offers and placings. Large discounts are a substantial cost to shareholders who do not buy new shares. The existing literature mainly examines US firm-commitment offers and private placements. The institutional setting differs in...

Catastrophe (Cat) bonds are insurance securitization vehicles which are supposed to transfer catastrophe-related underwriting risk from issuers to capital markets. This paper addresses key, unanswered questions concerning Cat bonds and offers the following results. First, our findings show firms...