This book, unique in its composition, reviews the academic empirical literature on how CDSs actually work in practice, including during distressed times of market crises. It also discusses the mechanics of single-name and index CDSs, the theoretical costs and benefits of CDSs, as well as...

1 Introduction: Economics and Organization of Financial Markets -- Part 1 Basic Financial Instruments -- 2 Basic Finance: Interest rates, Discounting, Investments, Loans -- 3 The Money Market and its Interbank Segment -- 4 The Bond Markets -- 5 Introduction to the Analysis of Interest Rate and...

Part I. The Criteria-based Approach to Credit Assessment and Crdit Rating -- Chapter 1. Credit Analysis and Credit Management -- Chapter 2. Financial Statement Analysis -- Chapter 3. The Criteria-based Approach to Credit Assessment and Credit Risk Rating -- Chapter 4. The Building Blocks of...

Part I. International Investments -- Chapter 1. The Economics of the International Market; Chapter 2. Portfolio Theory and International Diversification -- Part II. Fundamentals of Exchange-Traded Funds -- Chapter 3. The Basics of Exchange-Traded Funds -- Chapter 4. The Operation and...

This book provides an up-to-date guide to managing Country Risk. It tackles its various and interlinked dimensions including sovereign risk, socio-political risk, and macroeconomic risk for foreign investors, creditors, and domestic residents. It shows how they are accentuated in the global...

1 Abstract -- 2 Introduction -- 3 Chapter I: Literature on the subject of excess volatility -- 4 Chapter II: Excess volatility beyond discount rates -- 5 Chapter III: Evidence of excess volatility in the Eurozone market -- 6 Conclusions.

Corporate failures and accounting scandals had shaken the foundations of investors’ confidence in the transparency, integrity and accountability of corporations and financial markets. There had also been public disquiet about the role of professional auditors and audit firms, who had been...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Cross-Border Spillover Modelling, Concepts of “Geopolitical Risk” And “Transition Economies”; And The 2010-2020 Financial Stability Recommendations By The IMF, G20/G30 And The EU -- Chapter 3. Some Constitutional Law, Competition Law & Economic...