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Chicago school of economics

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Essays in Corporate Finance

In this thesis I study how firms choose their optimal debt maturity. The recent financial crisis illustrated why debt maturity is an important determinant of firmsâ capital structure and it also renewed economistsâ interest in this topic, see for examp ...

EPFL2018

On Bounding Credit-Event Risk Premia

Pierre Collin Dufresne

Reduced-form models of default that attribute a large fraction of credit spreads to compensation for credit-event risk typically preclude the most plausible economic justification for such risk to be priced, namely, a contemporaneous drop in the market por ...

Oxford University Press2015

On Bounding Credit-Event Risk Premia

Pierre Collin Dufresne

2015

Excessive Volatility is Also a Feature of Individual Level Forecasts

Anjali Devi Vanapilli Nursimulu

The excessive volatility of prices in financial markets is one of the most pressing puzzles in social science. It has led many to question economic theory, which attributes beneficial effects to markets in the allocation of risks and the aggregation of inf ...

Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd2014

On Bounding Credit Event Risk Premia

Pierre Collin Dufresne

Reduced-form models of default that attribute a large fraction of credit spreads to compensation for credit event risk typically preclude the most plausible economic justification for such risk to be priced--namely, a “contagious” response of the market po ...

Columbia Business School2012

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