This paper examines the effect of the political network of Chinese municipal leaders on the pricing of municipal corporate bonds. Using municipal leaders' working experience to measure the political network, we find that this network improves the credit ratings of the issuer, local government...

Ethereum is an important blockchain, being the first and most popular public platform for the smart contracts underpinning financial transactions, time-stamping of supply chains, decentralized applications and initial coin offerings. Ethereum's cryptocurrency, ether, is actively traded on...

We provide an accurate approximation method for inverting an option price to the implied volatility under arithmetic Brownian motion. The maximum error in the volatility is in the order of 1e-10 of the given option price and much smaller for the near-the-money options. Thus our approximation can...

Risk parity, also known as equal risk contribution, has recently gained increasing attention as a portfolio allocation method. However, solving portfolio weights must resort to numerical methods as the analytic solution is not available. This study improves two existing iterative methods: the...