This book provides an overview of the evolution of investment and risk, together with a synthesis of research on these developments. It explores how exposures can be modified by measuring and managing them and introduces readers to the latest strategies and trends in investment. Broad in scope,...

PART I: Banking -- The Role of a Reference Yield Fitting Technique in the Fund Transfer Pricing Mechanism -- Towards a Generalized Measure of Systemic Risk: Systemic Turbulence Measure -- Determinants of Loans Growth in Cooperative Banks in Poland: Does Capital Ratio Matter? -- Analysis of...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The US financial system from the National Banking Act to the crisis of 2007 -- Chapter 3: The birth of the Federal reserve and its monetary policy -- Chapter 4: Non bank financial intermediaries and the crisis of 1929 -- Chapter 5: The Great Depression --...

1. Introduction: the ‘new macroeconomic consensus’ arrives in China -- 2. A bank-dominated financial system -- 3. Targets: why money and credit? -- 4. Transmission: inside the banking black box -- 5. Instruments: the evolution of policy strategy -- 6. Conclusion

The business problem of having inefficient processes, imprecise process analyses and simulations as well as non-transparent artificial neuronal network models can be overcome by an easy-to-use modeling concept. With the aim of developing a flexible and efficient approach to modeling, simulating...

This book presents 20 peer-reviewed chapters on current aspects of derivatives markets and derivative pricing. The contributions, written by leading researchers in the field as well as experienced authors from the financial industry, present the state of the art in: "Modeling counterparty credit...

Chapter 1. Basic concept of epidemic-logistics -- Chapter 2. Epidemic dynamics modeling and analysis -- Chapter 3. Mixed distribution mode for emergency resources in anti-bioterrorism system -- Chapter 4. Epidemic logistics with demand information updating Model I: Medical resource is enough --...

Why and When Should Quantile Regression Be Used?- A Case of Study: Modelling Energy Markets by the Means of Quantile Regression -- Quantile Regression: A Methodological Overview -- Cross-Sectional Quantile Regression -- Time Series Quantile Regression -- Goodness of Fit in Quantile Regression...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Environmental Policies in the Power Sector -- Chapter 3. Features of Power Sectors -- Chapter 4. Analysis of Power System Operations with Non-Dominant Firms -- Chapter 5. Analysis of Power System Operations with a Dominant Firm and an Oligopolistic Industry...