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...

This paperwork underlines the importance of the index of Value at Risk in measuring global portfolio risk and the incremental risk induced from any additional assets. The advantage of the method is made evident practically. Starting from Markowitz portfolio selection algorithm, seeing the good...

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...

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

The world for financial institutions has changed during the last 20 years, and become riskier and more competitive-driven. After the deregulation of the financial market, banks had to take on extensive risk in order to earn sufficient returns. Interest rate volatility has increased dramatically...

This paper not only considers the regulatory challenges faced by regulators, but also the potential of responsive regulation and particularly meta regulation to address these challenges. It explores developments which have necessitated a change from the traditional form of regulation, that is,...

This paper will consider whether the scope of financial regulation should be extended and if so, ways in which this could occur. In order to carry out these tasks, it will not only address problems identified from the recent crises and Basel 2, gaps which exist in some of the responses to these...

The 2008-09 global financial crisis did not result in the failure of any major financial institution in Israel, but it did reveal vulnerabilities in the non-banking sector . particularly in the corporate-bond market. Conservative regulation of the banking sector helped this segment avoid a...