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Table of Contents:
Preface
Credit Rating Modelling by Neural Networks;pp. 1-42
(Peter Hajek, Institute of System Engineering and Informatics, Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic)
Sticky Credit Spreads, Macroeconomic Activity and Equity Market Volatility;pp. 43-74
(Yan Li, James M. Steeley, Paribas, Hong Kong, Aston Business School, Aston University, Birmingham, UK)
Profitability Determinants: An Empirical Study of Portuguese SMEs;pp. 75-97
(Zélia Serrasqueiro, Assistant Professor of Management and Economics Department, Beira Interior University and Researcher of CEFAGE- Évora University, Covilhă, Portugal, and others)
Derivatives and Debt: The Market as God and Marketing as Proselytizin;pp. 99-117
(Niccolo Caldararo, Dept. of Anthropology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California)
Assessing Household Vulnerability to Climate Change: The case of farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia;pp. 119-136
(T.T. Deressa, R.M. Hassan, R. Claudia, Center for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa, and others)
The Effects of Asymmetric Volatility Shocks on Equity and Foreign Exchange Rate Interactions;pp. 137-157
(Thomas J. Flavin, Ekaterini Panopoulou, Theologos Pantelidis, Deren Unalmis, Nacional University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, and others)
Banking Regulation and Procyclicality – Cross-Country Analysis in EMU;pp. 159-168
(Tamás Isepy, University of Pannonia, Faculty of Economics, Department of International Economics, Veszprém, Hungary)
Can a Financial Information Distortion Event Facilitate a Revision in the Independent Directors Institution;pp. 169-177
(Cheng Xin-Sheng, Li Hai-ping, Luo Yan-Mei, Business School Of Nankai University, Center for Corporate Governance Research, Tianjin, China)
Managerial Methods to Control Derivatives Losses;pp. 179-184
(Patrick L. Leoni, Euromed Management)
Asymptotic Expansion Approaches in Finance: Applications to Currency Option;pp. 185-232
(Akihiko Takahashi, Kohta Takehara, Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo, Japan)
An Analysis of the Determinants of Credit Default Swap Spread Changes before and during the Financial Turmoil;pp. 233-265
(Antonio Di Cesare, Giovanni Guazzarotti, Bank of Italy, Roma, Italy)
The Expenses Problem of Personal Financial Planning;pp. 267-288
(Oliver Braun, Marco Spohn, Universit of Applied Sciences, Trier, Germany)
The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and its Connections with Bank Bailouts;pp. 289-332
(M.A. Petersen, M.C. Senosi, J. Mukuddem-Petersen, B. de Waal, S. Thomas, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa)
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