1 Introduction: Economics and Organization of Financial Markets -- Part 1 Basic Financial Instruments -- 2 Basic Finance: Interest rates, Discounting, Investments, Loans -- 3 The Money Market and its Interbank Segment -- 4 The Bond Markets -- 5 Introduction to the Analysis of Interest Rate and...

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...

Sebastian Frericks examines, based on a qualitative content analysis, the factors that lead large German listed companies to downfall. He finds factors and motives uncared for as well as new interrelations between variables that can be used to develop a future-looking risk sensitivity based on a...

1. Trends and role of consumer credits in the European economy -- 2. Changing credit landscape -- 3. The role of consumer credits in the life of an European household -- 4. Regulatory and organisational context of consumer credits in Europe -- 5. Conclusion.

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Sweden, an economy in transformation, 1820-1910 -- Chapter 3: Savings banks in the Swedish banking system -- Chapter 4: Savers and the risk of deposit banking -- Chapter 5: Credit risks – from networks and co-operation to stable markets -- Chapter 6: Trust...

CHAPTER 1 - Primary financial statements -- CHAPTER 2 - Notes to financial statements -- CHAPTER 3 - Financial statement analysis -- CHAPTER 4 – Prospective financial statement analysis and simulations -- CHAPTER 5 – Real-life case study: A flight to a bankruptcy of Norwegian Air Shuttle.

1. Introduction: mortgages and annuities in historical perspective -- 2. Mortgages and the English peasantry c.1250-c.1350 -- 3. Mortgages raised by rural English copyhold tenants 1605-1735 -- 4. Mortgages and the Kentish yeoman in the seventeenth century -- 5. Why the equity of redemption? 6....

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....

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...

1 Introduction -- 2. Financial Institutions : A Regulation review through the Risk Measurement prism -- 3. The Traditional Risk measures -- 4. Univariate and Multivariate Distributions -- 5. Extensions for Risk Measures: Univariate and Multivariate Approaches -- 6. Risks Measures and Dynamics --...