The risk of counterparty default in banking, insurance, institutional, and pension-fund portfolios is an area of ongoing and increasing importance for finance practitioners. It is, unfortunately, a topic with a high degree of technical complexity. Addressing this challenge, this book provides a...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to modern financial modeling using Excel, VBA, standards of financial modeling and model review. It offers guidance on essential modeling concepts around the four core financial activities in the modern financial industry today: financial...

A review of optimal investment rules in electricity generation -- A Survey of Commodity Markets and Structural Models for Electricity Prices -- Fourier based valuation methods in mathematical finance -- Mathematics of Swing Options: A Survey -- Inference for Markov-regime switching models of...

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...

Develops a comprehensive concept of regulatory risk integrating existing theoretical and empirical research. This book explains how the design of the regulatory system influences the risk of a rate-regulated firm, as well as elaborates appropriate methods for the determination of the regulatory...

Part I: Econometrics of Financial Markets -- Information Asymmetry, Liquidity and the Dynamic Volume-Return Relation in Panel Data Analysis -- Density forecasts of emerging markets’ exchange rates using Monte Carlo simulation with regime switching -- Determination of the own funds requirements...

What Is Portfolio Analytics?- From Risk Factors to Returns: Computing Exposures -- A Useful Approximation -- Extending Our Framework -- The Yield Curve: Fitting Yield Curves -- Modelling Yield Curves -- Performance: Basic Performance Attribution -- Advanced Performance Attribution -- Traditional...