This book analyzes the relative balance of bargaining power between governments and the banks in charge of underwriting their debt during the first financial globalization. Brazil and Mexico, both indebted countries that underwent major changes in reputation and negotiating power as they faced...

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 book 'International Finance in Emerging Markets' reviews contemporary issues in international monetary and financial economics in an emerging financial market using the example of Thailand. The book adopts the elements of new welfare economics and asymmetric information paradigms in...

The international debate on odious debt touches on many fundamental issues, including the intersection between ethics and finance, the moral responsibility of parties to international contracts and of sovereigns to their constituents. Stephania Bonilla analyzes the dynamics of sovereign debt...

Investment and all other economic actions depend on 'subjective' expectations. The problem is how to construct a theory of expectations that assumes people interpret their situations in unpredictable ways. Building on the evolutionary economics of F.A.Hayek, Koppl gives us such a theory. This...

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...

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...