Terms, definitions and short essays -- Deposit insurance schemes -- Gramm-Leach-Bailey Act: creating a new bank for a new millennium -- Comparative analysis of zero-coupon and coupon-pre-funded bonds -- Intertemporal risk and currency risk -- Credit derivatives -- international parity conditions...

Terms and Essays -- Deposit Insurance Schemes -- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: Creating a New Bank for a New Millennium -- Pre-funded Coupon and Zero-Coupon Bonds: Cost of Capital Analysis -- Intertemporal Risk and Currency Risk -- Credit Derivatives -- Foreign exchange risk premium and policy...

The Encyclopedia of Finance, Second Edition, comprised of over 1000 individual definitions and chapters, is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource in the field, integrating the most current terminology, research, theory, and practical applications. Showcasing contributions from an...

A Brief Review of the Errors-in-Variables Problem in Asset Pricing Tests -- A Comparison of Formulas to Compute Implied Standard Deviation -- A Critical Evaluation of the Portfolio Performance Indices Under Rank Transformation -- A Fuzzy Real Option Valuation Approach To Capital Budgeting Under...

In this chapter we show that, as the world becomes increasingly integrated, the benefits of global diversification still remain positive and economically significant over time. Both regression analysis and explanatory power tests show that international integration, measured by adjusted from a...