Key Features:One of the first few books to address the important, current topic of bank safety and efficiency in cross-border bankingProminent contributors include Raghuram Rajan from International Monetary Fund, Stefan Ingves from Bank of Sweden/Riksbank, Sheila Bair from Federal Deposit...

Key Features:One of the first few books on the market to address problems and challenges in cross-border bankingProminent contributors include a current governor of the Bank of Mexico, a former US Comptroller of the Currency, the Vice-Chairman of the Basle Committee on Banking and Supervision,...

This paper provides additional evidence on the usefulness of duration as a strategy tool by developing a two-factor duration model and by using a reasonably reliable database to compare empirically the relative performance of maturity, one-factor duration, and two- factor duration matching...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Streetwise -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Market Behavior -- Challenge to Judgment (Fall 1974) -- The Dividend Puzzle (Winter 1976) -- The Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Market Model (Winter 1981) -- Factors in New York Stock Exchange Security Returns, 1931-1979...