Evidence has been mounting (over the centuries) that the interest based debt financing regime is under ever increasing distress. All of the earlier crises whatever label they carried− exchange rate crisis or banking crisis – have been debt crises in essence. At the present, empirical research suggests that the debt-to-GDP ratio of the richest members of the G-20 threatens to touch 120% m...

Derivatives are alternative financial instruments which extend traders opportunities to achieve some financial goals. They are risk management instruments that are related to a data in the future, and also they react to uncertain prices. Study on pricing futures can provide useful tools to understand the stochastic behavior of prices to manage the risk of price volatility. Thus, this study eval...

The consistent finding in papers that estimate the interest rate diffusion function is that interest rate volatility is an increasing function of the spot rate. This paper introduces and implements regression tests of monotonic diffusion functions using an implied volatility proxy for objective volatility. Using the case of three-month LIBOR rates, this paper documents that the relationship bet...

This paper presents a 3D model for pricing defaultable bonds with embedded call options. The pricing model incorporates three essential ingredients in the pricing of defaultable bonds: stochastic interest rate, stochastic default risk, and call provision. Both the stochastic interest rate and the stochastic default risk are modeled as a square-root diffusion process. The default risk process is...

We present an extension of stochastic volatility equity models by a stochastic Hull-White interest rate component while assuming non-zero correlations between the underlying processes. We place these systems of stochastic differential equations in the class of affine jump diffusion linear quadratic jump-diffusion processes (Duffie, Pan and Singleton [13], Cheng and Scaillet [10]) so that the pr...

We use a Wicksellian single rotation framework to analyze the impact of the intertemporally fluctuating and stochastic mean-reverting interest rate process on the optimal harvesting threshold and thereby the expected length of the rotation period, when forest value is also stochastic following geometric Brownian motion and landowners are risk-averse. We provide an explicit solution for the two-...