TY - RPRT AU - Jaskowski, Marcin AU - McAleer, Michael PY - 2013 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/41498 AB - Since Black (1976), the source of the stock price volatility smirk has remained a controversy. The volatility smirk is a side eect of agency conict. An important distinction is that the smirk occurs in the optimum, even after agency conict has been... LA - eng KW - Volatility Smirk KW - Asymmetric Volatility Smile KW - Agency Conict KW - Debt Externality KW - Leverage. TI - Volatility Smirk as an Externality of Agency Conict and Growing Debt TY - technical report VL - 2013 ER -