The paper suggests a nonlinear and multivariate time series model framework that enables the study of simultaneity in returns and in volatilities, as well as asymmetric effects arising from shocks and an outside stock exchange. Using daily data 2000-2006 for the Baltic state stock exchanges and...

La crise financière 2007-2008 a suscité une profusion de réactions et d'explications : on a évoqué le mimétisme des organismes, la cupidité de leurs dirigeants, la propension des traders à aimer le jeu. Elle est évidemment due à la conjonction de plusieurs facteurs. Nous mettons ici...

Reviews provisions in ILO standards that refer to finance, the financial sector as a whole, financial isntitutions, financial instruments and policies addressed to the financial sector.

Provides a practical tool for the design and implementation of sustainable microfinance interventions, with a particular focus on rural areas. Provides guidance on who to target, how to establish and maintain savings and lending schemes, what kind of training to provide, gender concerns and cost...

Studies the services provided by Islamic banks and considers measures to facilitate their role in the financing of small and medium enterprises in Africa.

This book discusses banking, insurance, and securities regulation, as well as issues in consumer finance and electronic commerce.

Economic and mathematical model of credit management of commercial banks is developed. The model allows obtaining optimalstrategies of variant calculations of this kind of banking services. The procedure of quantitative solution of this problem is substantiatedto help to make optimal decisions...

The paper analyzes, on the base of a presented sampling, the trends of population crediting by the banks in the Siberian Federal District in the periods of the pre-crisis, crisis and post-crisis restoration. We can state that in the crisis a sex structure of borrowers (physical persons) has...