Evidence on the "funding gap" for R&D is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment in R&D that persist even in the absence of externality-induced underinvestment. The conclusions are that 1) small and new innovative firms experience high costs of capital that are...

Corporate Governance deals with the issue, how suppliers of finance to corporations assure themselves of getting a return on their investment. Several Studies have examined the relationship between managerial ownership and firm performance. Using different samples most of the studies provide...

Building on the seminal work of Veronesi (2000), we investigate the relationship between the quality of information on the state of the economy and equity risk premium. In this, we use a setup where investors have Epstein-Zin preferences and the economy switches between booms and recessions at...

There has been a substantial recent growth in government loan guarantees to ailing firms in the United States. This paper investigates the potential incentive effects of this practice. Using the simplest available two-period model, it is shown that when firms know that loan guarantees may be...

We investigate the model of Froot and Stein (1998), a model that has very strong implications for risk management. We argue that their conclusions are too strong and need to be qualified. Also, there are some unusual consequences of their model, which may be linked to the chosen pricing formula.

We analyze a problem of maximization of expected terminal wealth and consumption in markets with some ``imperfection'', such as constraints on the permitted portfolios, labor income, or/and nonlinearity of portfolio dynamics. By using general optional decomposition under constraints in...

We reconsider the valuation of barrier options by means of binomial trees from a "forward looking" prospective rather than the more conventional "backward induction" one used by standard approaches. Our reformulation allows us to write closed-form expressions for the value of European and...

OBJETIVOS: Dar a conocer los principios y técnicas de la contabilidad de costos; Permitir el análisis de la contabilidad de costos desde la perspectiva de la gestión de empresas; Capacitar al alumno en el manejo y uso de la información de costos para lograr una eficiente administración a...

Some recent empirical works indicate that investor performance and market patterns are primarily information driven instead of a behavioral phenomenon. However, Grossman and Stiglitz information theory and its variations offer little guidance in identifying informed investors and in...

Banks’ holding of reasonable capital buffers in excess of minimum requirements could alleviate the procyclicality problem potentially exacerbated by the rating-sensitive capital charges of Basel II. Determining the required buffer size is an important risk management issue for banks, which the...