A major theme of this book is the development of a consistent unified model framework for the evaluation of bond options. In general options on zero bonds (e.g. caps) and options on coupon bearing bonds (e.g. swaptions) are linked by no-arbitrage relations through the correlation structure of...

This book presents new approaches to fixed income modeling and portfolio management techniques. Taking into account the latest mathematical and econometric developments in finance, it analyzes the hedging securities and structured instruments that are offered by banks, since recent research in...

Charakterisierung von Unternehmensanleihen -- Konzeption der empirischen Untersuchung und Datenaufbereitung -- Empirische Methodik: Bestimmung von impliziten Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeiten aus Zinsstrukturkurven -- Empirische Untersuchung: Analyse der impliziten Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeiten --...

This book presents a new, inter-disciplinary framework of financial instability that builds on the Post-Keynesian model of financial crises in the tradition of Hyman Minsky and Charles Kindleberger. It reincorporates John Maynard Keynes’ insights on economic conventions to explain how market...

Occupational pensions are major participants in global financial markets with assets of well over $30 trillion, representing more than 40% of the assets of institutional investors. Some occupational pension funds control assets of over $400 billion, and the largest 300 occupational pension funds...

This book underscores the complexity of the equity markets, the challenges they face, and the fact that they are still a work in process. Three interacting forces drive market change: competition, technology change, and regulatory change. The markets have one major objective in particular to...

Asset bubbles and contagion have had a profound effect on the financial markets after the financial and sovereign debt crises. This book takes a quantitative approach to examining these phenomena and will appeal to practitioners who need to understand the repercussions of these events on trading...

Max Otte vermittelt in diesem Buch wichtiges Grundwissen zum Wirtschaftssystem der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, zur Funktionsweise von Geld- und Kapitalmärkten und zur Wirtschaftsethik und macht fundierte Vorschläge für Reformen. Damit ist dieses Werk ein dringend notwendiges Korrektiv, denn...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: IFC studies and the Politics of Finance -- Chapter 3: Taking a Public Policy Theoretical Approach -- Chapter 4: Hong Kong -- Chapter 5: Singapore.- Chapter 6: Shanghai -- Chapter 7: Comparisons and Analysis -- Chapter 8: Conclusions. Bibliography -- Appendices.