Methods for sound risk management are of increasinginterest among Wall Street investment banking and brokeragefirms in the aftermath of the October 1987 crash of the stockmarket. As the knowledge of advanced technology applicationsin risk management increases, financial firms are...

Methods for sound risk management are of increasing interest among Wall Street investment banking andbrokerage firms in the aftermath of the October 1987 crash of the stock market. We present an overview of thebasic definitions and issues related to risk, and the management of financial risk and...

Methods for sound risk management are of increasing interest among Wall Street investment banking andbrokerage firms in the aftermath of the October 1987 crash of the stock market. As the knowledge of advancedtechnology applications in risk management increases, financial firms are finding...

This paper examines the different factors that have contributed to the subprime mortgage credit crisis: the search for yield enhancement, agency problems, lax underwriting standards, failure by the rating agencies to identify a changing environment, poor risk management by financial...

[fre] Dans quelle mesure les faits récents en France conforteraient une opinion largement répandue parmi les économistes français, qui tendrait à rejeter les thèses traditionnelles de l'inflation au profit d'explications dont l'origine serait structurelle ou sectorielle ? Nous avons tenté...

A sovereign that is issuing debt denominated in foreign currency is exposed to a mismatch between the value of its assets that can be used to serve the debt, denominated in local currency, and the value of its liability. During economic crisis, when the probability of default by the sovereign...

We propose a new model for the valuation of loan commitments and some of their main features including the MAC (Material Adverse Change) clause. We employ a two-period contingent claim approach. The advantage of this approach is that it is based on rational economic considerations that are...

In this paper a joint capital asset pricing model and option pricing model is considered and applied to the derivation of an equity's value and its systematic risk. We first analyze the propreties of the two models and present some newly found properties of the option pricing model. We then...