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The financial system -- An overview of financial markets and institutions -- The federal reserve and its powers -- The fed and interest rates -- Bond prices and interest rate risk -- The structure of interest rates -- Financial markets -- Money markets -- Bond markets -- Mortgage markets -- Equity markets -- Derivatives markets -- International markets -- Commercial bank operations -- International banking -- Regulation of financial institutions -- Financial institutions -- Thrift institutions and finance companies -- Insurance companies and pension funds -- Investment banking -- Investment companies -- Risk management in financial institutions -- Glossary -- Credits and acknowledgments -- Index

Business snapshots -- Preface -- Introduction -- Financial institutions and their trading -- Banks -- Insurance companies and pension plans -- Mutual funds and hedge funds -- Appendix a: compounding frequencies and interest rates -- Appendix b: zero rates, forward rates, and zero-coupon yield curves -- Appendix c: valuing forward and futures contracts -- Appendix d: valuing swaps -- Appendix e: valuing european options -- Appendix f: valuing american options -- Appendix g: taylor series expansions -- Appendix h: eigenvectors and eigenvalues -- Appendix i: principal components analysis -- Appendix j: manipulation of credit transition matrices -- Appendix k: valuation of credit default swaps -- Appendix l: synthetic cdos and their valuation -- Answers to questions and problems -- Glossary of terms -- Derivagem software

HauptbeschreibungThe financial crisis 2007-2009 clearly demonstrates the necessity to implement regulations for systemically important financial institutions to achieve overall financial stability. Basel III gains center stage in this process. The new regulations affect all market participants - regardless of size and business model. Thus, it is essential for financial institutions to face the upcoming challenges and seek for appropriate and stabilizing responses. Stefan Schwerter outlines current theoretical issues of systemic risk and its regulations. These considerations are applied for an

The global financial crisis has led to more and more focus on corporate governance and financial institutions. There has been much coverage in the media about various corporate governance related issues in banks and other financial institutions, such as executive directors' remuneration and bankers' bonuses, board composition and board diversity. This book, dedicated to the corporate governance of banks and other financial institutions, makes a timely and accessible contribution to the literature in this area. The contributors are experts in their field with in-depth knowledge of the various countries including Italy, the UK, Germany, the US, China, Japan, Brazil, Russia, Australia and Nigeria, plus a chapter on Islamic financial institutions, covered in this book. Overall, the engagingly written chapters highlight many of the shortcomings of corporate governance which have led to financial scandals, whilst indicating areas where corporate governance can be strengthened and improved.Adding depth and accessibility to existing corporate governance books, this Handbook is ideal as a teaching and learning tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students. For directors and the general business and wider stakeholder communities concerned with corporate governance, it is an essential resource

International law and the operations of the international financial institutions / Daniel D. Bradlow -- International financial institutions and international law : a third world perspective / B.S. Chimni -- Responsibility of international financial institutions under international law / Eisuke Suzuki -- International financial institutions before national courts / August Reinisch and Jakob Wurm -- Rethinking international financial institution immunity / Steven Herz -- Regulation and resource dependency : the legal and political aspects of structural adjustment programmes / Celine Tan -- International law and public participation in policy-making at the international financial institutions / David B. Hunter -- International financial institutions and human rights : select perspectives on legal obligations / Siobhán McInerney-Lankford -- Indigenous peoples and international financial institutions / Fergus MacKay -- Worker rights and the international financial institutions / Jerome I. Levinson -- International environmental law, the world bank, and international financial institutions / Charles E. Di Leva -- Conclusion : the future of international law and international financial institutions / Daniel D. Bradlow an David B. Hunter

This paper examines the investment behavior in debt securities across financial institutions with a particular focus on how they respond to price changes. For identification, we use security-level data from the German Microdatabase Securities Holdings Statistics. Our results suggest that banks and investment funds may destabilize the market by responding in a pro-cyclical manner to price changes. For investment funds, this effect was even stronger during the crisis and periods of high uncertainty. Insurance companies and pension funds buy securities after a drop in prices. They also buy securities that are trading at a discount and sell securities that are trading at premium. This counter-cyclical behavior may stabilize markets whenever prices have been pushed away from fundamentals. Since our results suggest that institutions with impermanent balance sheet characteristics may exacerbate price dynamics, it is of crucial importance for financial stability to monitor the investor base as well as the balance sheets of both levered and non-levered investors.

"The 2008-2009 financial crises, while originating in the United States, witnessed a drop in asset prices and output that was at least as large in the rest of the world as in the United States. A widely held view is that this was the result of global transmission through leveraged financial institutions. We investigate this in the context of a simple two-country model. The paper highlights what the various transmission mechanisms associated with balance sheet losses are, how they operate, what their magnitudes are and what the role is of different types of borrowing constraints faced by leveraged institutions. For realistic parameters we find that the model cannot account for the global nature of the crisis, both in terms of the size of the impact and the extent of transmission"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site