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...

Part I. The Criteria-based Approach to Credit Assessment and Crdit Rating -- Chapter 1. Credit Analysis and Credit Management -- Chapter 2. Financial Statement Analysis -- Chapter 3. The Criteria-based Approach to Credit Assessment and Credit Risk Rating -- Chapter 4. The Building Blocks of...

1. The background -- 2. Roadmap, preparations -- 3. Investors -- 4. Managing the different ecosystems: the international press, the rating agencies and the domestic public opinion -- 5. Restarting the engines: first issuance -- 6. The road to normalization had its ups and downs. 7. The final...

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...

The traditional role of a bank was to transfer funds from savers to investors, engaging in maturity transformation, screening for borrower risk and monitoring for borrower effort in doing so. A typical loan contract was set up along six simple dimensions: the amount, the interest rate, the...

Introduction -- Quality of Bank Capital, Competition, and Risk-Taking: Some International Evidence -- Banking Sector Reform, Competition, and Bank Stability: An Empirical Analysis of Transition Countries -- The Impact of Bank Regulation and Supervision on Competition: Evidence from Emerging...

Susen Claire Berg stellt die gegenwärtige bankenaufsichtsrechtliche Berücksichtigung des Kreditrisikos in allen drei Säulen des Baseler Rahmenwerks umfassend dar und liefert darüber hinaus eine rechtsvergleichende Analyse der derzeitigen Regulierung mit der zukünftigen potenziellen...

Due to the novelty of green bonds in the fixed income area, little empirical research has been done on the question which impact the fact that a bond is investing in green projects has on the yield that investors receive. The aim of this book is to determine if there is a discount or premium on...

1. Conventional Macroeconomic Policy -- 2. Islamic Macroeconomic Policies -- 3. Capital Markets: Conventional versus Islamic -- 4. Risk Sharing and Public Policy -- 5. Government Finance and the Debt Market -- 6. Government Finance and the Equity Market -- 7. Macro Market Application -- 8. Micro...