Part 1. Portfolio building blocks covering foreign exchange, money markets, fixed Income and derivatives Instruments -- 1 Traded Foreign Exchange Instruments -- 2 Traded Money Market Instruments -- 3 Fixed Income Instruments market condition, pricing mechanism, quoting and settlement convention...

This is the first book to introduce the major quantitative tools in risk management taking financial investments and logistics planning as the background: optimization and stochastic programming. Contained here are the fundamentals of portfolio selection theory from the point of view of risk...

Chapter 1. The Real Estate Investment Market: The Current State and Why Advances Are Needed -- Chapter 2. The Data -- Chapter 3. Modern Portfolio Theory -- Chapter 4. Historical Portfolio Optimization – Domestic REITs -- Chapter 5. Diversification with International REITs -- Chapter 6....

Chapter 1 Retail Investors in Indian IPO’s – The Context -- Chapter 2 Retail Investor participation and protection in the context of IPOs- a review of extant literature -- Chapter 3 Legal framework and governing design for IPOs in India -- Chapter 4 Primary Market Transformation- the net...

Redesigning of the Clearance and Settlement Process in the Indian Capital markets -- Redesigning of Clearance and Settlement Process and its Impact on its Performance in the Indian Equity market -- Enabling Clearance and Settlement Process Redesign: A Study of the Indian Equity Market --...

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...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Financial Networks in the Presence of a Dominant Agent -- Chapter 3: Exchange-Traded Products as a Source of Network Risk -- Chapter 4: The VIX “Volmaggedon”, with Exchange-Traded Notes Destabilizing the Market -- Chapter 5: Liquidity Fissures in the...

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...

Chapter 1. Introducing Economic Capital -- Part 1. Modelling Credit-Risk Economic Capital -- Chapter 2. Constructing a Practical Model -- Chapter 3. Finding Model Parameters -- Chapter 4. Implementing The Model -- Part 2. Loan Pricing -- Chapter 5. Approximating Economic Capital -- Chapter 6....

This book, unique in its composition, reviews the academic empirical literature on how CDSs actually work in practice, including during distressed times of market crises. It also discusses the mechanics of single-name and index CDSs, the theoretical costs and benefits of CDSs, as well as...