In light of the 2007-2008 global food, fuel and financial crises, ”land grabbing” has attracted media spotlight due to concerns over welfare of farmers in these ”renter” countries, and the secrecy around the content of the deals signed. ”Land grabbing” is farmland's acquisition or...

"Commodities are basic goods used in commerce and are most often used as inputs in the production of other semi-finished or finished materials. They are very important products in our lives today and constitute non-negligible sources of income for many countries. This book serves as a guide to...

This paper extends extant valuation models of interest rate swaps (IRS) with counterparty credit risk by accounting for wrong-way risk and OIS discounting. The proposed model extends Brigo and Pallavicini's (2007) and Ruiz et al.'s (2013) models, by capturing wrong-way risk in the CVA...

We investigate the role of foreign banks and access to the regional stock market in the relationship between bank capital, competition and liquidity creation in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries using hand-collected bank-level data for 2000-2017. We uncover new...