The well-known tendency of investors to favor cash dividends emerges quite naturally in two new theories of choice behavior [the theory of self-control due to Thaler and Shefrin (1981) and the version of prospect theory set out by Kahneman and Tversky (1979)]. Although our treatment is novel when viewed from the perspective of standard financial theory, it provides explanations for a phenomenon...

We examine discounted penalties at ruin for surplus dynamics driven by a general spectrally negative Lévy process; the natural class of stochastic processes which contains many examples of risk processes which have already been considered in the existing literature. Following from the important contributions of Zhou (2005) we provide an explicit characterization of a generalized version of the ...

Financial theory creates a puzzle. Some authors argue that high-risk entrepreneurs choose debt contracts instead of equity contracts since risky but high returns are of relatively more value for a loan-financed firm. On the contrary, authors who focus explicitly on start-up finance predict that entrepreneurs are the more likely to seek equity-like venture capital contracts, the more risky their...

This chapter introduces the theoretical framework for the analysis of the execution of dynamic hedging. A discussion of the issues related to the application of financial theory to the microstructure of dynamic hedging is provided.. Among these issues is the “continuous time problem”, the “delta paradox”. This chapter also presents results related to the simplification of the risk neutral argum...

This paper examines the dynamic relationship that exists between the US real estate and S&P 500 stock markets between the years of 1972 to 1998. This is achieved by conducting both linear and nonlinear causality tests. The results from these tests provide a number of interesting observations which primarily show linear relationships to be spuriously affected by structural shifts which are inher...

This paper examines the transition of economies of Albania and the Czech Republic, noting that their relative failure and success could have been predicted by academic literature. Financial intermediation theory predicted the rise of independently created mutual funds in the Czech Republic, while similar intermediation literature related to monitoring (or the lack thereof) predicted the develop...

In today’s competitivemarkets, most firms in United Kingdom and United States offer their products on trade credit to stimulate sales and reduce inventory. Trade credit is calculated based on time value of money on the purchase cost (i.e., discounted cash flow analysis). Recently, many researchers use discounted cash flow analysis only on the purchase cost but not on the revenue (which is signi...

In our affluent post-capitalist society in which basic existential needs are satisfied with plenty to spare and the workaday world is seen as sobering and disi l lusioning,1 people have a growing demand for emotional stimulation—in concrete terms, the value of money earned for services rendered is exchanged for emotional consumption experiences. Thus, the new type of “experience consumer” is no...