Cooper and Nyborg (2008) derive a tax-adjusted discount rate formula under a constant proportion leverage policy, investor taxes and risky debt. However, their analysis assumes zero recovery in default. We extend their framework to allow for positive recovery rates. We also allow for differences...

We suggest a simple and general way to improve the GARCH volatility models using the intraday range between the highest and the lowest price to proxy volatility. We illustrate the method by modifying a GARCH(1,1) model to a Range-GARCH(1,1) model. Our empirical analysis conducted on stocks,...

This paper uses a dynamic conditional correlation model to examine whether Bitcoin can act as a hedge and safe haven for major world stock indices, bonds, oil, gold, the general commodity index and the US dollar index. Daily and weekly data span from July 2011 to December 2015. Overall, the...

This paper studies existence of structural breaks in the average return and volatility of the Bitcoin price. We utilize a Bayesian change point model to detect structural breaks and to partition the time series into segments. We find that structural breaks in average returns and volatility of...