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...

1. Introduction -- 2. A comparative analysis of the Chinese and the US financial system and its regulatory environment -- 3. China’s deepening integration into global financial markets: lessons from the US counterpart -- 4. Pre- and post-pandemic Sino-US inbound and outbound investments -- 5....

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...

We use a survey approach to learn about valuation professionals' choices and implementations of valuation techniques in practice. The survey design allows us to control for a respondent's professional subgroup (e.g., consulting), education, experience, and valuation purpose characteristics. We...

The following pages relate to the experience of over three thousand young people with regards to what it means for them to be coming of age in today's world. Between September 2005 and April 2006, these young women and men met in twenty-six developing countries to talk about what concerns them:...