Three approaches toward the determination of fixed swap rates are presented in this article: a swap as a portfolio of bonds with a fixed and floating coupon, a swap as a portfolio of forwards, and a swap as the difference between the cap and the floor (zero-collar). Later in the paper, credit...

The aim of the paper is to apply a theory of asymmetric information to managing production risk in agriculture. The second part of the paper is devoted to the tools for reducing the information asymmetry - parametric products (weather derivatives, index insurance). The results are based on...

The paper focuses on how risk management may influence the value of a company. Situation is discussed with models of Modigliani - Miller - Fama and their assumptions in the background. After the basic explications of the afore mentioned models and of the decision- making rule for investments,...