Cover -- CONTENTS -- GLOSSARY -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- I. BACKGROUND, KEY FINDINGS AND FOLLOW UP -- A. Introduction -- B. Methodology and Information Used for the Assessment -- C. Overview of...

Managing Credit Risk, Second Edition opens with a detailed discussion of today's global credit markets-touching on everything from the emergence of hedge funds as major players to the growing influence of rating agencies. After gaining a firm understanding of these issues, you'll be introduced...

Financial markets respond to information virtually instantaneously. Each new piece of information influences the prices of assets and their correlations with each other, and as the system rapidly changes, so too do correlation forecasts. This fast-evolving environment presents econometricians...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Equations, Examples and Exhibits -- Preface -- Capital Expenditure on Tangible Assets -- Acquisitions - An Overview -- Introduction -- The Acquisition Process -- Financial Due Diligence -- Financial Evaluation -- Valuing Real Options -- Valuation Using Multiples --...

In distilling a vast literature spanning the rational- irrational divide, this paper offers reflections on why asset bubbles continue to threaten economic stability despite financial markets becoming more informationally-efficient, more complete, and more heavily influenced by sophisticated...

Modeling and Pricing of Swaps for Financial and Energy Markets with Stochastic Volatilities is devoted to the modeling and pricing of various kinds of swaps, such as those for variance, volatility, covariance, correlation, for financial and energy markets with different stochastic volatilities,...

Key Features:Comprises a collection of essays not usually found in the run-of-the-mill literature on financial economicsProposes a new paradigm of "fair markets" to replace "efficient markets" - a challenge to the fieldThe author is a pioneer in this area and writes in an accessible and...

China's increasing role in global economic affairs has placed the country at a crossroads: how many and what types of international capital-market transactions will China permit? How will China's financial system change internally? What kind of relationships will the Chinese government develop...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abstract -- Acknowledgements -- Currency Equivalents -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary and Introduction -- Chapter I: The Rural Economy and its Economic Agents -- Chapter II: Rural Financial Intermediaries, Market Shares, Credit Products, and...