Asset Pricing, Default Risk. - The central question of this thesis is whether firm distress risk explains stock returns. This question is important because it has been suspected that distress risk might reconcile a growing evidence on patterns in returns, which are otherwise hard to explain,...

A Brief Review of the Errors-in-Variables Problem in Asset Pricing Tests -- A Comparison of Formulas to Compute Implied Standard Deviation -- A Critical Evaluation of the Portfolio Performance Indices Under Rank Transformation -- A Fuzzy Real Option Valuation Approach To Capital Budgeting Under...

This doctoral dissertation analyses the transmission of monetary policy. It applies a variety of empirical methods to study how conventional and unconventional monetary policy measures transmit to different macroeconomic and financial variables. The first article analyses the effect of monetary...