Option pricing-based bond value estimates and a fundamental components approach to account for corporate debt

Accounting Review

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 73-102

  Barth, Mary E ^b   Landsman, Wayne R ^a   Rendleman Jr , Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Call; Conversion; Corporate debt; Financial instruments; Fundamental components; Option pricing; Put and sinking fund features

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031638273     PISSN: 00014826     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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