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On the pricing of corporate debt: the risk structure of interest rates

Robert C. Merton
- 01 May 1974 - 
- Vol. 29, Iss: 2, pp 449-470
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In this article, the American Finance Association Meeting, New York, December 1973, presented an abstract of a paper entitled "The Future of Finance: A Review of the State of the Art".
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Presented at the American Finance Association Meeting, New York, December 1973.(This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)

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Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on recent progress in the theory of property rights, agency, and finance to develop a theory of ownership structure for the firm, which casts new light on and has implications for a variety of issues in the professional and popular literature.
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Determinants of corporate borrowing

TL;DR: In this article, the authors predict that corporate borrowing is inversely related to the proportion of market value accounted for by real options and rationalize other aspects of corporate borrowing behavior, such as the practice of matching maturities of assets and debt liabilities.
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An equilibrium characterization of the term structure

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived a general form of the term structure of interest rates and showed that the expected rate of return on any bond in excess of the spot rate is proportional to its standard deviation.
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Option pricing when underlying stock returns are discontinuous

TL;DR: In this article, an option pricing formula was derived for the more general case when the underlying stock returns are generated by a mixture of both continuous and jump processes, and the derived formula has most of the attractive features of the original Black-Scholes formula.
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Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrate elements from the theory of agency, property rights and finance to develop a theory of the ownership structure of the firm and define the concept of agency costs, show its relationship to the separation and control issue, investigate the nature of the agency costs generated by the existence of debt and outside equity, demonstrate who bears costs and why and investigate the Pareto optimality of their existence.
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The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities

TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical valuation formula for options is derived, based on the assumption that options are correctly priced in the market and it should not be possible to make sure profits by creating portfolios of long and short positions in options and their underlying stocks.
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Efficient capital markets: a review of theory and empirical work*

Eugene F. Fama
- 01 May 1970 - 
TL;DR: Efficient Capital Markets: A Review of Theory and Empirical Work Author(s): Eugene Fama Source: The Journal of Finance, Vol. 25, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Finance Association New York, N.Y. December, 28-30, 1969 (May, 1970), pp. 383-417 as mentioned in this paper
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The Cost of Capital, Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of financial structure on market valuations has been investigated and a theory of investment of the firm under conditions of uncertainty has been developed for the cost-of-capital problem.
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Theory of rational option pricing

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors deduced a set of restrictions on option pricing formulas from the assumption that investors prefer more to less, which are necessary conditions for a formula to be consistent with a rational pricing theory.
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Increasing risk: I. A definition

TL;DR: The authors tried to answer the question: When is a random variable Y "more variable" than another random variable X "less variable" by asking when a variable X is more variable than another variable Y.