"As risk-taking is an essential part of the banking industry, banks must practice efficient risk management to ensure survival in uncertain financial climates. Banking operations are specifically affected by fluctuations in interest rates which cause financial imbalance, thus banks are now...

Introduction -- The foreign exchange intervention -- The bid-ask spread: the market microstructure perspective -- The empirical decomposition of the bid-ask spread for exchange rates -- Government intervention on the spread -- References -- Appendices.

"This book provides a technical and specialized discussion of contemporary and emerging issues in FOREX and financial markets by addressing the issues of risk management and theory and hypothesis development, which have general implications for finance theory and FOREX market management. It...

Introduction and context -- Corporate governance and firm value: issues-causality, interaction and non-linearity -- Econometric methods: data, summary statistics and models -- Empirical evidence 1: causality model results -- Empirical evidence 2: interaction model results -- Empirical evidence...