Fan Yu

Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance

Professor of Financial Economics

500 E. Ninth St.

Claremont, CA 91711-6420

United States

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1.

Risk and Return in Fixed Income Arbitrage: Nickels in Front of a Steamroller?

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 28 Dec 2005
Jefferson Duarte, Francis A. Longstaff and Fan Yu
Rice University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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How Profitable is Capital Structure Arbitrage?

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 22 Mar 2005
Fan Yu
Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Default Risk and Diversification: Theory and Empirical Implications

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Default Risk and Diversification: Theory and Empirical Implications

EFA 2001 Barcelona Meetings
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Jan 2001
Robert A. Jarrow, David Lando and Fan Yu
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Copenhagen Business School and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Default Risk and Diversification: Theory and Empirical Implications

Mathematical Finance, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-26, January 2005
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Dec 2004
Robert A. Jarrow, David Lando and Fan Yu
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Copenhagen Business School and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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The Information Content of Option-Implied Volatility for Credit Default Swap Valuation

FDIC Center for Financial Research, Working Paper No. 2007-08
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2012
Charles Cao, Zhaodong Zhong and Fan Yu
Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Business School at Newark & New Brunswick and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Credit default swap spread, option-implied volatility, volatility risk premium, informed trading

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Counterparty Risk and the Pricing of Defaultable Securities

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 01 Jan 2000
Robert A. Jarrow and Fan Yu
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Default Correlation in Reduced-Form Models

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 May 2005
Fan Yu
Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Modeling Expected Return on Defaultable Bonds

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 18 Dec 2001
Fan Yu
Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Accounting Transparency and the Term Structure of Credit Spreads

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Jan 2003
Fan Yu
Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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The Determinants of Operational Risk in U.S. Financial Institutions

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), 46(6), pp. 1683-1725, 2011
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2012
Anna Chernobai, Philippe Jorion and Fan Yu
Syracuse University - M. J. Whitman School of Management, University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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operational risk, financial institution, credit risk, corporate governance, executive compensation

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Credit Derivatives and Analyst Behavior

Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper No. 2012-03
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 11 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2015
George E. Batta, Jiaping Qiu and Fan Yu
Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance, McMaster University - Michael G. DeGroote School of Business and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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credit default swap; informed trading; earnings announcement; analyst forecast; buy/sell recommendation; rating downgrade

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Correlated Defaults in Intensity-Based Models

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Correlated Defaults in Intensity-Based Models

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 28 Dec 2005
Fan Yu
Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Correlated Defaults in Intensity-Based Models

Mathematical Finance, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 155-173, April 2007
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 19 Mar 2007
Fan Yu
Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Endogenous Liquidity in Credit Derivatives

AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Mar 2011
Jiaping Qiu and Fan Yu
McMaster University - Michael G. DeGroote School of Business and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Why Does Corporate Governance Explain Credit Spreads?

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2008
Jefferson Duarte, Fan Yu and Lance A. Young
Rice University, Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics
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Credit Spreads, Information Asymmetry, Corporate Governance

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The Market for Corporate Control and the Cost of Debt

Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming, Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper No. 2009-11
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 19 Jan 2009
Jiaping Qiu and Fan Yu
McMaster University - Michael G. DeGroote School of Business and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Implicit Government Guarantee and the Pricing of Chinese LGFV Debt

Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper No. 2922946
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 24 Feb 2017
Laura Xiaolei Liu, Yuanzhen Lyu and Fan Yu
Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Chinese LGFV debt, chengtou bonds, implicit government guarantee, yield spread, city and provincial debt ratios

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Credit Derivatives and Firm Investment

Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper No. 2923236
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 25 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2019
George E. Batta and Fan Yu
Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Credit default swaps, firm investment, acquisitions, debt issuance, bankruptcy risk, debt overhang

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Credit Risk Spillovers and Cash Holdings

Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper No. 3140958
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 19 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2018
Jin Lei, Jiaping Qiu, Chi Wan and Fan Yu
Brock University - Goodman School of Business, McMaster University - Michael G. DeGroote School of Business, University of Massachusetts Boston - Department of Accounting and Finance and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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credit risk contagion; product market rivalry; financial distress; cash holdings; payout ratio; bank loan contracting

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Modeling Municipal Yields with (and without) Bond Insurance

Forthcoming, Management Science, Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 12 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2018
Albert Lee Chun, Ethan Namvar, Xiaoxia Ye and Fan Yu
University of Queensland - Business School, University of California, Berkeley - Haas School of Business, University of Liverpool Management School and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Municipal bonds; bond insurance; monoline; default risk; liquidity risk; term structure modeling

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Property Investment and Rental Rates Under Housing Price Uncertainty: A Real Options Approach

HKIMR Working Paper No.24/2013
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2015
Honglin Wang, Fan Yu and Yinggang Zhou
Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research (HKIMR), Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and Xiamen University - Department of Finance
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Investment Under Uncertainty, Real Options, Housing Price, Rent, China

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Unifying Gaussian Dynamic Term Structure Models from an HJM Perspective

Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper No. 2817599
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Aug 2016
Haitao Li, Xiaoxia Ye and Fan Yu
Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, University of Liverpool Management School and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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Gaussian Dynamic Term Structure Models, HJM, Finite Dimensional Realizations, Interest Rate Derivatives

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A Re-Examination of Rating Shopping and Catering Using Post-Crisis Data on CDOs

Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper No. 2828789
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 25 Aug 2016
Robert Owlett and Fan Yu
Claremont McKenna College and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
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collateralized debt obligations, credit rating agencies, credit spread, rating shopping, rating catering

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Property Investment and Rental Rate Under Housing Price Uncertainty: A Real Options Approach

Real Estate Economics, Forthcoming, Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper No. 3113143
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 15 Feb 2018
Honglin Wang, Fan Yu and Yinggang Zhou
Hong Kong Monetary Authority - Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research (HKIMR), Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and Department of Finance at School of Economics (SOE), and Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics (WISE), Xiamen University
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Investment under uncertainty, real options, housing price, rent, Hong Kong, China

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A Unified HJM Approach to Non-Markov Gaussian Dynamic Term Structure Models: International Evidence

Posted: 02 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2019
Haitao Li, Xiaoxia Ye and Fan Yu
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Liverpool Management School and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance

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Non-Markov; Gaussian Dynamic Term Structure Models; Excess Returns; International Bond Markets; Moving Averages; Forecasting

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Pricing Credit Default Swaps with Option-Implied Volatility

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 67, No. 4, 2011
Posted: 09 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2011
Charles Cao, Fan Yu and Zhaodong Zhong
Pennsylvania State University, Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Rutgers Business School at Newark & New Brunswick

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Derivatives, Credit Derivatives Markets and Instruments, Modeling and Pricing Credit Derivatives, Options Markets and Instruments, Volatility Issues