Chapter 1. Trends in Infrastructure Industry -- Chapter 2. Infrastructure Financing Instruments -- Chapter 3. Risks inherent in Project Finance and its mitigation -- Chapter 4. Structuring and Implementation of the Project -- Chapter 5. The Chuo Shinkansen Project, Japan -- Chapter 6. Developing...

In recent years, the European Commission has attached increasing importance to the use of financial engineering instruments rather than traditional grant-based financing for the microcredit sector, considering these to be the most efficient option available. This book presents a study of...

Introduction to the Economics of Securitazation -- Overview of Securitization and Securitized Products -- Overview of Loan Portfolio Analysis -- Incentives and the Economics of Securitization -- Problems with Securitization -- Structuring Securitized Bonds -- The Economics of Securitization...

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...

1. Introduction -- 2. European money and culture before 1914 -- 3. The 1920s: Lessons from Weimar -- 4. The Jazz Age: America in the 1920s -- 5. The money-haters: experiments in socialism -- 6. Europe between the world wars: a ferment of ideas -- 7. How Europe’s culture kept money under...

This book presents 20 peer-reviewed chapters on current aspects of derivatives markets and derivative pricing. The contributions, written by leading researchers in the field as well as experienced authors from the financial industry, present the state of the art in: "Modeling counterparty credit...