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(1990)This study investigates the pricing behaviors of default-free bond futures and American options on default-free bond futures based on the framework of Brennan and Schwartz (1979). In their model, the state space of ...
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(1980)The principal objective of this dissertation is to investigate empirically the factors that determine land values (i.e., vacant-lot prices). The secondary objective is to demonstrate empirically the coherent response of ...
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(1982)Managing the risk associated with unexpected changes in interest rates is a problem facing borrowers, lenders and fixed income security dealers. Financial instrument futures contracts were created to provide a mechanism ...
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(1998)The findings in the paper do not support the theories that share repurchase programs are related to management signaling an increase in a firm's long-run performance in the market. Contrary to the hypothesized relationships, ...
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(1998)This research applies state-of-the-art financial techniques to the dynamic financial modeling of property-liability (P-L) insurance companies. Dynamic financial analysis (DFA)--a relatively new concept in the P-L ...
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(1982)The application of four theories of regulatory behavior are tested on the property-liability insurance industry through the use of a simultaneous equations system. Insurance profitability and regulation are the endogenous ...
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(1995)In Chapter I, the firm's accounts receivable sales decision is modeled both in the case where it is constrained to sell the entire receivable (factoring) and in the case where it has the flexibility to sell a portion of ...
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(2001)This research investigates the importance of the underlying assumption of interest rate movements when valuing insurance. Movements in interest rates affect the present value of both property-liability and life insurance ...
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(1986)Traditional finance theory assumes separation of the financing and operating decisions in a firm. Any decision to issue more policies by an insurance firm is an operating decision. It also changes the liability side of the ...
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Effects of Recent Bank Debenture Financing on Investment Valuation of Commercial Bank Common Stocks (1967)
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(1982)The Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) pass-through security is a secondary mortgage market instrument whose Federally-guaranteed cash flows mirror the payments on an underlying pool of government-insured ...
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(2001)Chapter 3 is motivated by the unusual institutional feature that in Brazil auctions of government securities are carried out by two different entities, the Central Bank (CB) and the National Treasury Secretariat (NTS). ...
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(1992)This research examines several financial models that have been developed for rate regulation and ratemaking of property-liability insurers over the past fifteen to twenty years. Empirical model estimates of underwriting ...
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(1986)The current literature indicates that the asset pricing models presently in vogue do not describe the real world accurately. While there exists a need for better models it appears that an understanding of the heterogeneity ...
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