Download Area 

From here you can download course materials and my recent papers. All the papers are in .pdf format, for which you need the Acrobat Reader, available free from the Adobe website.

Recent Published Papers:

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Correlation Risk, Cross-Market Derivative Products, and Portfolio Performance," (with T.S. Ho and R.C. Stapleton), European Financial Management, July 1995 Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Multivariate Binomial Approximations for Asset Prices with Non-Stationary Variance and Covariance Characteristics," (with T.S. Ho and R.C. Stapleton), Review of Financial Studies, Winter 1995 Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Pricing and Hedging American Options: A Recursive Integration Method and its Implementation,"(with J. Huang and G.G. Yu), Review of Financial Studies, Spring 1996 Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"The Term Structure of Interest Rates: Alternative Approaches and their Implications for the Valuation of Contingent Claims," Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance: Theory, Spring 1996 Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Interest Rate and Foreign Exchange Risk: An Overview of Hedging Instruments and Strategies," (with R.C. Stapleton), in F.D.S. Choi, (ed.), Handbook of International Finance and Accounting, Wiley, New York, 1996 Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"The Valuation of American Options with Stochastic Interest Rates: A Generalization of the Geske-Johnson Technique," (with T.S. Ho and R.C. Stapleton), Journal of Finance, June 1997 Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"The Pricing of Marked-to-Market Contingent Claims in a No-Arbitrage Economy," (with S.E. Satchell and R.C. Stapleton), Australian Journal of Management, June 1997 Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"The Valuation of American Options on Bonds," (with T.S. Ho and R.C. Stapleton), Journal of Banking and Finance, December 1997 Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"The Risk of a Currency Swap: A Multivariate-Binomial Methodology," (with T.S.Ho and R.C. Stapleton), European Financial Management, March 1998 Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Who Buys and Who Sells Options: The Role of Options in an Economy with Background Risk," (with G. Franke and R.C. Stapleton),  Journal of Economic Theory, September 1998 Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Coupon Effects and the Pricing of Japanese Government Bonds: An Empirical Analysis,"(with Y.H.Eom and J. Uno), Journal of Fixed Income, September 1998 Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"When are Options Overpriced: The Black-Scholes Model and Alternative Characterizations of the Pricing Kernel," with G. Franke and R.C. Stapleton), European Finance Review, (renamed Review of Finance), Spring 1999 Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"An Empirical Examination of the Convexity Bias in the Pricing of Interest Rate Swaps," (with Anurag Gupta), Journal of Financial Economics, February 2000 Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"The Valuation of American Barrier Options Using the Decomposition Technique,"(with B.Gao and J.Huang), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, October 2000. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"The International Linkage of Interest Rate Swap Spreads: The Yen-DollarMarkets,"(withY.H. Eom and J. Uno)  Economic Theory, Dynamics and Markets:Essays in Honor of Ryuzo Sato,  K. Mino, T.Negishi and R.Ramachandran,(eds.),KluwerAcademic Press, 2001. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Asset Prices and the Level of Background Risk," (with G. Franke and R.C. Stapleton) in Beitraege zur Mikro- und zur Makro-Oekonomik: Festschrift fuer Hans Juergen Ramser, S.K. Berninghaus, 2001.Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"The Transmission of Swap Spreads and Volatilities in the International Swap Markets,” (with Y.H. Eom and J. Uno), Journal of Fixed Income, June 2002. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Stale Prices and Strategies for Trading Mutual Funds," (with J. Boudoukh, M.P. Richardson and R.F. Whitelaw), Financial Analysts Journal, July-August 2002. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Asset Prices "A Multi-Factor Spot-Rate Model for the Pricing of Interest-Rate Derivatives," (previously "The Valuation of Bermudan-Style Swaptions in a Multi-Factor Spot-Rate Model") (with S. Peterson and R.C. Stapleton), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, December 2003. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Background Risk and the Demand for State-Contingent Claims," (previously "Standard Risk Aversion and the Demand for Risky Assets in the Presence of Background Risk") (with G. Franke and R. C. Stapleton), Economic Theory, December 2003. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Pricing and Hedging Interest Rate Options: Evidence from Cap-Floor Markets," (with A. Gupta), Journal of Banking and Finance, March 2005. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"When Does Strategic Debt Service Matter?," with V. Acharya, J. Huang and R. Sundaram), Economic Theory, October 2006. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif   

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif" Latent Liquidity: A New Measure of Liquidity, with an Application to Corporate Bonds," (with S. Mahanti, A. Nashikkar, G. Chacko,and G. Mallik), Journal of Financial Economics, 2008. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"The Economic Determinants of Interest Rate Option Smiles," (with P. Deuskar and A. Gupta), Journal of Banking and Finance, May 2008. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"A Tale of Two Prices: Liquidity and Asset Prices in Multiple Markets," (with J. Chan and D. Hong), Journal of Banking and Finance, June 2008. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"On the Volatility and Comovement of U.S. Financial Markets Around Macroeconomic News Announcements," (with M. Brenner and P. Pasquariello), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, December 2009. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Group Affiliation and the Performance of Initial Public Offerings in the Indian Stock Market," (with V. Marisetty), Journal of Financial Markets, February 2010. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Securitization and Real Investment in Incomplete Markets," (with V. Gaur and S. Seshadri), Management Science, forthcoming Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Liquidity Effects in OTC Options Markets: Premium or Discount?," (with P. Deuskar and A. Gupta), Journal of Financial Markets, February 2011. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"The Structure and Formation of Business Groups: Evidence from Korean Chaebols," (with H. Almeida, S.Y. Park and D. Wolfenzon), Journal of Financial Economics, February 2011. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Price Dispersion in OTC Markets: A New Measure of Liquidity," (with R. Jankowitsch and A. Nashikkar), Journal of Banking and Finance, February 2011. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif“Liquidity and Arbitrage in the Market for Credit Risk (with S. Mahanti and A. Nashikkar), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, June 2011. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Illiquidity or Credit Deterioration: A Study of Liquidity in the US Corporate Bond Market during Financial Crises," (with Nils Friewald and Rainer Jankowitsch), Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming. Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

 

 

Recent Working Papers: 

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"The Term Structure of Interest Rate-Futures Prices," (with R.C. Stapleton) Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Margin Rules, Informed Trading in Derivatives and Price Dynamics," (with K. John, A. Koticha and R. Narayanan)
Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Credit Risk and the Yen Interest Rate Swap Market," (with Y. H. Eom and J. Uno) Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Incremental Risk Vulnerability," (with G. Franke and R.C. Stapleton) Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"The Optimal Timing of Inventory Decisions using Options," (with

V. Gaur and S. Seshadri) Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Background Risk and Trading in a Full-Information Rational Expectations Economy," (with R.C. Stapleton and Q. Zeng) Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Private Placements, Regulatory Restrictions and Firm Value: Theory and Evidence from the Indian Market," (with V.R. Anshuman and V.B. Marisetty) Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Liquidity and Portfolio Management: An Intra-Day Analysis," (with J. Cherian and S. Mahanti) Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif

 

Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\arrow.gif"Does the Tail Wag the Dog? The Effect of Credit Default Swaps on Credit Risk," (with D.Y. Tang and S.Q. Wang) Description: Description: Description: Description: Description: C:\wpf\RESEARCH\download.gif