[eng] Asset management and credit derivatives : opportunities and uncertainties . The qualified success of credit derivatives results from the very promising possibilities they offer in terms of investment opportunities and portfolio diversification. However, the market is still in its infancy :...

Researchers at central banks increasingly turn to counterfactual simulations to estimate the danger of contagion owing to exposures in the interbank loan market. The present paper summarises the findings of such simulations, provides a critical assessment of the modelling assumptions on which...

The turbulences in the international financial markets during the summer and autumn of 1998 put the price formation and liquidity provision mechanism in many markets under severe strain. As part of the large-scale portfolio rebalancing that took place, investors shifted a large part of their...