Autori
Barone, Emilio
Olivieri, Gennaro

Titolo
Derivates and usury: The role of options in transcations used to act in fraud of the law
Periodico
Annali del Dipartimento di metodi e modelli per l'economia, il territorio e la finanza
Anno: 2015 - Volume: 16 - Pagina iniziale: 13 - Pagina finale: 26

The search for derivative contracts with complex features can also be explained as the market’s attempt to elude the restrictions imposed by the law on money loans. This is an undesirable effect of anti-usury rules. It can be added to the one mentioned by Montesquieu and Adam Smith, who pointed out that usury increases with the severity of the prohibition, since the lender indemnifies himself for the risk he runs of suffering the penalty. In this paper we look at some of the ways in which derivative contracts can be used to circumvent anti-usury provisions and conceal money loans made at exorbitant rates. After examining the simplest cases, we will consider more complex contracts, such as swaps with embedded options, which are often used in dealings between banks and municipalities. Our thesis is that, in all these cases, in order to detect usury, we have to calculate the contracts’ option-adjusted yields.



SICI: 2385-0825(2015)16<13:DAUTRO>2.0.ZU;2-I
Testo completo: https://web.uniroma1.it/memotef/sites/default/files/EmilioBarone_GennaroOlivieri_13-26_2015.pdf

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