A Game Theory Analysis of Options: Corporate Finance and Financial Intermediation in Continuous TimeModern option pricing theory was developed in the late sixties and early seventies by F. Black, R. e. Merton and M. Scholes as an analytical tool for pricing and hedging option contracts and over-the-counter warrants. How ever, already in the seminal paper by Black and Scholes, the applicability of the model was regarded as much broader. In the second part of their paper, the authors demonstrated that a levered firm's equity can be regarded as an option on the value of the firm, and thus can be priced by option valuation techniques. A year later, Merton showed how the default risk structure of cor porate bonds can be determined by option pricing techniques. Option pricing models are now used to price virtually the full range of financial instruments and financial guarantees such as deposit insurance and collateral, and to quantify the associated risks. Over the years, option pricing has evolved from a set of specific models to a general analytical framework for analyzing the production process of financial contracts and their function in the financial intermediation process in a continuous time framework. However, very few attempts have been made in the literature to integrate game theory aspects, i. e. strategic financial decisions of the agents, into the continuous time framework. This is the unique contribution of the thesis of Dr. Alexandre Ziegler. Benefiting from the analytical tractability of contin uous time models and the closed form valuation models for derivatives, Dr. |
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a)SÅ a)SB agency cost amount analysis of options analyze asset risk assets-to-deposits ratio backward induction bank runs bank's assets bankruptcy costs bankruptcy decision bankruptcy-triggering asset value borrower's boundary conditions call option capital structure Chap chapter choose collateral contingent claims D₁ deposit insurance depositors endogenous bankruptcy equity holders equity value event of bankruptcy expected profit face value following parameter values game theory analysis geometric Brownian motion given guarantor impact incentive contract initial interest payments interest rate intuition issue junior debt JE(S junior debt issue lender and borrower liquidate the bank liquidation costs maximize option pricing payoff Player principal-agent problem put option recapitalize the bank renegotiation-proof result risk-free Risk-free interest rate risk-neutral probability risk-shifting incentive risk-shifting problem SB SB Sect senior debt holders social welfare Solving underlying asset value of bank value of debt value of equity value of senior Wiener process x)St yields