Chapter 1: Why Finance Matters for Economics: The Story of Financing the Railroad -- Chapter 2: The Story of the Original Boom and Bust in Western Finance: The Mississippi Bubble -- Chapter 3: Price Determination in a Multi Sector Global Economy -- Chapter 4: Credit Allocation and the Role of...

1. Introduction -- 2. Summary Statistics -- 3. Paris Club Terms -- 4. Angola -- 5. Argentina -- 6. Azerbaijan -- 7. Barbados -- 8. Belarus -- 9. Belize -- 10. Bosnia and Herzegovina -- 11. Cameroon -- 12. Republic of Congo -- 13. Cote d'Ivoire -- 14. Cuba -- 15. Dominican Republic -- 16. Ecuador...

This book provides a unique, focused introduction to the analytical skills, methods and techniques in the assessment of credit risk that are necessary to tackle and analyze complex credit problems. It employs models and techniques from operations research and management science to investigate...

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. Financial Regulations, Supervision Structure and Banking Performance in CESEE -- 2. The income velocity of money - determinants (case of the Czech Republic) -- 3. The Impact of Central Bank Policy Rate on Financial Development: The case of Europe -- 4. Causes of limitations of GDP per capita...

Part I – General aspects of ESG -- 1. Introduction: the multiples roles of corporate governance under ESG (Paulo Câmara) -- 2. Sustainability as a game changer in corporate governance (Guido Ferrarini) -- 3. ESG and the shift on corporate purpose (Beate Sjåfjell) -- 4. Sustainability and...

This book focuses on forward lease sukuk, which is one of the most viable and dynamic Shari’ah-compliant instruments in the Islamic capital market. The idea of forward lease sukuk is to raise funds from non-existent assets whose subject matter does not exist at the time of the sukuk issuance....

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Compliance Norms and Legal Coherence -- Chapter 3. Compliance in Financial Institutions – Tasks, Functions and Structure -- Chapter 4. The Scope Compliance Norms in Financial Institutions -- Chapter 5. The Impact of Cultural Differences on Compliance Norms...