This paper studies the link between secondary market liquidity for a corporate bond and the bond's yield spread at issuance. Using ex-ante measures of expected liquidity at the time of issuance, based on the characteristics of the underwriting syndicate, we find an economically large impact of...

Climate policy proposals based on cap and trade mechanisms with tight caps will likely lead to highly volatile CO2 prices. This volatility is ignored in many studies, even though it can be expected to exceed that of natural gas and to exceed the wide ranges in CO2 price forecasts. Volatility...

This paper deals with ‘investment timing’, or how to make decisions on long-term investments to mitigate catastrophic risk where the risk is driven by trends and seasonality, and interest rates vary stochastically over time. Our model combines real options theory, extreme value theory and...