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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:

"Correlation Risk, Cross-Market Derivative Products, and Portfolio Performance," (with T.S. Ho and R.C. Stapleton), European Financial Management, July 1995 

"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 

"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 

"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 

"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 

"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 

"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 

"The Valuation of American Options on Bonds," (with T.S. Ho and R.C. Stapleton), Journal of Banking and Finance, December 1997 

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

"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 

"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 

"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 

"An Empirical Examination of the Convexity Bias in the Pricing of Interest Rate Swaps," (with Anurag Gupta), Journal of Financial Economics, February 2000 

"The Valuation of American Barrier Options Using the Decomposition Technique,"(with B.Gao and J.Huang), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, October 2000. 

 

"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.  

"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.

"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. 

"Stale Prices and Strategies for Trading Mutual Funds," (with J. Boudoukh, M.P. Richardson and R.F. Whitelaw), Financial Analysts Journal, July-August 2002. 

"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. 

"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. 

"Pricing and Hedging Interest Rate Options: Evidence from Cap-Floor Markets," (with A. Gupta), Journal of Banking and Finance, March 2005.  

"When Does Strategic Debt Service Matter?," with V. Acharya, J. Huang and R. Sundaram), Economic Theory, December 2006.    

" 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. 

"The economic determinants of Interest Rate Option Smiles," (with P. Deuskar and A. Gupta), Journal of Banking and Finance, 2008. 

"A Tale of Two Prices: Liquidity and Asset Prices in Multiple Markets," (with J. Chan and D. Hong), Journal of Banking and Finance, forthcoming. 

 

"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, forthcoming.

 

"Group Affiliation and the Performance of Initial Public Offerings in the Indian Stock Market," (with V. Marisetty), Journal of Financial Markets, forthcoming. 

 

 

 

 

 

Recent Working Papers: 

 

"The Term Structure of Interest Rate-Futures Prices," (with R.C. Stapleton) 

"Margin Rules, Informed Trading in Derivatives and Price Dynamics," (with K. John, A. Koticha and R. Narayanan)
 

"Credit Risk and the Yen Interest Rate Swap Market," (with Y. H. Eom and J. Uno) 

"Intermediation and Value Creation in an Incomplete Market: Implications for Securitization," (with V. Gaur and S. Seshadri

 

"Incremental Risk Vulnerability," (with G. Franke and R.C. Stapleton) 

 

"Liquidity Effects in OTC Options Markets: Premium or Discount?," (with P. Deuskar and A. Gupta) 

“Limited Arbitrage and Liquidity in the Market for Credit Risk,” (previously “Latent Liquidity and Corporate Bond Yield Spreads") (with S. Mahanti and A. Nashikkar) 

"The Optimal Timing of Inventory Decisions using Options," (with

V. Gaur and S. Seshadri)

 

"Price Dispersion in OTC Markets: A New Measure of Liquidity," (with R. Jankowitsch and A. Nashikkar) 

 

"The Structure and Formation of Business Groups: Evidence from Korean Chaebols," (with H. Almeida, S.Y. Park and D. Wolfenzon)