This book evaluates the economic effect of monetary policies and exchange rate arrangements within Latin America. Using theoretical and empirical studies, the text examines pertinent issues in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, including the role of currency board, inflation targeting and international prudential regulation in banking crisis reduction.

This book is a collection of six studies on behaviour of financial and economic variables in emerging and Euro markets. The studies cover examination of the behaviour of interest rates, banks' credit and default risks, sovereign bond markets, effectiveness of inflation targeting, and dynamics of external debt and growth.

This book provides a thorough analysis of risk management in emerging markets. It includes the latest empirical studies on the role of insider trading and the extent of information efficiency of these markets, and a comprehensive assessment of the suitability of the Value at Risk models to emerging markets.

This book presents the latest findings on the impact of capital flows and foreign direct investments (FDI) on macroeconomic variables and financial development of emerging markets. Each chapter concentrates on a different region and explores the significance of specific factors that can attract FDI to that region.

This book presents the latest empirical findings on stock markets in a number of emerging markets. The authors employ the latest techniques and provide valuable insights into each market, highlighting global integration, their potential for profitable investments and features that will be influential in global portfolio decision-making.

The book features eight studies related to governance and risk. It provides a critical evaluation of Basel II, and questions the significance of corruption in country risk analysis and investors' decision making. It offers a reliable model of early warning credit signals that helps managers to detect default risks, and provides a risk-based analysis of alternative production systems in Pakistan. It analyzes the effects of market liberalization on volatility spill-over across the globe, and examines past and future prospects for the Iraqi stock exchange. Finally, it proposes securitization as a means to finance costs of reconstruction in Iraq.

This book is a collection of studies that examine the path of transition of central and south eastern European countries, the implications of EU enlargement for the acceding countries and the remaining European countries yet to join. It also discusses reactions of eastern European stock markets to news of financial crisis in emerging markets

This book evaluates the economic effect of monetary policies and exchange rate arrangements within Latin America. Using theoretical and empirical studies, the text examines pertinent issues in Argentina, Mexico and Brazil, including the role of currency board, inflation targeting and international prudential regulation in banking crisis reduction.

This book is a collection of six studies on behaviour of financial and economic variables in emerging and Euro markets. The studies cover examination of the behaviour of interest rates, banks' credit and default risks, sovereign bond markets, effectiveness of inflation targeting, and dynamics of external debt and growth.

This book provides a thorough analysis of risk management in emerging markets. It includes the latest empirical studies on the role of insider trading and the extent of information efficiency of these markets, and a comprehensive assessment of the suitability of the Value at Risk models to emerging markets.

This book presents the latest findings on the impact of capital flows and foreign direct investments (FDI) on macroeconomic variables and financial development of emerging markets. Each chapter concentrates on a different region and explores the significance of specific factors that can attract FDI to that region.

This book presents the latest empirical findings on stock markets in a number of emerging markets. The authors employ the latest techniques and provide valuable insights into each market, highlighting global integration, their potential for profitable investments and features that will be influential in global portfolio decision-making.

The book features eight studies related to governance and risk. It provides a critical evaluation of Basel II, and questions the significance of corruption in country risk analysis and investors' decision making. It offers a reliable model of early warning credit signals that helps managers to detect default risks, and provides a risk-based analysis of alternative production systems in Pakistan. It analyzes the effects of market liberalization on volatility spill-over across the globe, and examines past and future prospects for the Iraqi stock exchange. Finally, it proposes securitization as a means to finance costs of reconstruction in Iraq.

This book is a collection of studies that examine the path of transition of central and south eastern European countries, the implications of EU enlargement for the acceding countries and the remaining European countries yet to join. It also discusses reactions of eastern European stock markets to news of financial crisis in emerging markets