Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an innovative model that helps create a portfolio of m-fixed-income securities, each with the optimal weight, in order for the portfolio to be d- and ?-hedged against small changes in interest rates. Re-balancing a portfolio on a periodic basis...

Purpose – Interest only strips are created by stripping the interest portion of cash flows generated in mortgage-backed securities or simply by servicing portfolios of mortgages. A number of financial institutions have significant amounts of mortgage-servicing rights (MSR) which need to be...

We discuss how the Registered Traveler (RT) program can enhance simultaneously aviation security and passenger convenience. We point out some of the potential weaknesses in the program from both a security and civil liberty perspective. The RT program is a public-private partnership between the...

In a world where the objectives of managers differ from the objectives of shareholders, the analysis of management response to a tender offer must consider the possibility that management's response is a function of their equity interest in the company.

In the paper “Predicting the Outcome of Tender Offers: An Endogeneity Problem”, we argue that previous econometric models designed to predict the outcome of tender offers have been estimated incorrectly. We illustrate that the source of the estimation error comes from variables which are...

Purpose – One of the main risks to investors in securitized reverse mortgages is that the value of the reverse mortgage exceeds that of the property. The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that determines paths of constant cross-over points across any pairs of interest and inflation...