This is the first survey study in Hong Kong on the practice of investment management in terms of stock market forecasting and stock selection. Our respondents come from different sectors of the investment industry. Hong Kong has became one of the most important centres for fund management...

This paper adopts the backtesting criteria of the Basle Committee to compare the performance of a number of simple Value-at-Risk (VaR) models. These criteria provide a new standard on forecasting accuracy. Currently central banks in major money centres, under the auspices of the Basle Committee...

Preventing financial crisis has become the concerns of average citizens all over the world and the aspirations of academics from disciplines outside finance. In many ways, better management of financial risks can be achieved by more effective use of information in financial institutions. In this...

Brazil is the largest stock market in South America, whereas Argentina is one of the smallest. Nonetheless, the most important stock indices representing these markets (the Brazil Bovespa and the Argentinian Merval) are highly correlated with two-way Granger causality. This feature facilitates...

Albanese and et. al. (2003) and Avellaneda and Zhu (2001) develop the framework of Credit Barrier Model. They provide special solutions to the model in case of simple stochastic structure. The technical aspect of the model remains wide open for general stochastic structure that is crucial when...

Following the rationale of the KMV model, this study builds an empirical model to price corporate credit risk for listed corporations in Hong Kong. To mitigate the bias from accounting data, the model totally relies on market-based information, such as equity value, stock market index, implied...

The advent of liquidity as a matter of study and research in India may be traced back to the pre-crisis period literature on money supply which, having left its vestige until early 2010, revolved around macro-economic modeling of money, output and prices with sporadic attention to issues like...

This document summarizes how CTRISKS grades the credit risk of listed companies in Hong Kong and tests the power of risk discrimination and accuracy of PD calibration of CTRISKS grades. Statistical validation methods, including ROC Statistic, Gini Coefficient, maximum PD assuming zero or...

This paper studies empirically the determinants of Chinese commercial banks' net interest margins from 1996 to 2003. It applies an extension to the Ho and Saunders (1981) model to identify the elements affecting net interest margins. The results indicate that the determinants of net interest...