Core assumptions underlying the micro portfolio approach to public debt management -- A public finance framework for long-term sovereign funding decisions -- Recommendations for broader debt management objectives -- A new approach to model the shape and dynamics of the term structure of interest...

Speculative currency crises seem to have become a common and inevitable phenomenon in the international monetary system. Against this background, various approaches have been developed by economists to cover the broad range of situations in which balance-of-payments crises occurred. Anja Zenker...

Die kommunale Verschuldung und die daraus resultierende Zinsbelastung nehmen stetig zu, so dass es einer Vorgehensweise bedarf, welche entweder die Zinslast senkt oder sie zumindest mit ihren Risiken transparent macht, wenn die Gemeinden langfristig handlungsfähig bleiben wollen. Johannes...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Public Debt Management: Reflections on Strategy & Structure -- Chapter 3. Cash Management System -- Chapter 4. Debt Management by Central Government -- Chapter 5. Financial Regulation and Public Debt Management -- Chapter 6. Cash and Debt Management in --...

Restructuring the balance sheets of Western governments, banks and households is an important issue in the recovery after the recent crisis. Chorafas' latest book focuses on sovereign debt, sovereign risk and the developing economic and financial business climate and explains why the year of the...

The International Handbook of Public Financial Management is a virtual encyclopedia of public financial management, written by topmost experts, many with a background in the IMF and World Bank. It provides the first comprehensive guide to the subject that has been published in more than ten...

The European public debt problem was in the making long before the 2007-2009 recession, as budget deficits had become endemic. A similar crisis is now developing in America, where the same fundamental causes have been at work. The Public Debt Problem analyzes the situation of public debts in...

Competition and Efficiency in the Mexican Banking Industry contributes to the understanding of competition policy in the Mexican banking system and explains how levels of competition relate to the efficiency of banks