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Systemic Financial Risk
This report analyses the results of simulations using an agent based model of financial markets to show how excessive levels of leverage in financial markets can lead to a systemic crash. Investors overload on risky assets betting more than they have to gamble creat...
(2012)
Related Party Transactio...
Related party transactions involve parties who can control the terms of a transaction in their favor potentially at the cost of the company. They include management, board members and controlling shareholders. The publication reviews provisions covering related party transacti...
(2012)
The Wall Street Primer: ...
How does Wall Street, that great bastion of American Capitalism, really work? This book provides the multifaceted answer to that question clearly, concisely, and on a practical level for anyone seeking to better understand the inner workings of the capital markets. T...
(2008)
Bank Profitability: Fina...
OECD Banking Statistics
Trends in bank profitability and factors affecting it are major indicators of changes in the state of health of national banking systems. This publication provides nationally aggregated financial statements of banks data for OECD member countries. The coverage of ban...
(2011)
Hong Kong's Money
The History, Logic and Operation of the Currency Peg
by Tony Latter
Between 1935 and 1985, Hong Kong's growth seemed unstoppable. The economy flourished despite wars, revolution and Western protectionism to emerge as a world-class manufacturing exporter and an international financial centre. Yet, for bankers, these were troubled years, with ba...
(2008)
Pricing Foreign Exchange...
Incorporating Purchasing Power Parity (Second edition)
This book develops a new and interesting approach to the valuation of foreign exchange options. The authors synthesise international monetary theory with the Samuelson-Black-Scholes insight that assets prices follow diffusion processes, and obtain a system of stochastic differ...
(2010)
Cost-Benefit Analysis an...
Recent Developments
This book presents an in-depth assessment of the most recent conceptual and methodological developments in cost-benefit analysis and the environment.It examines how costs and benefits are evaluated and given monetary value, how to take into account impacts on future generation...
(2006)
Financial Support to Fis...
Implications for Sustainable Development
OECD governments pay out around USD 6 billion a year to support the fisheries sector. Some of this expenditure is provided to help ensure the effective management of fisheries through the provision of research, administrative and enforcement services. However, its effects on e...
(2006)
Export Credit Financing ...
2005 Update
This 2005 update toExport Credit Financing Systems includes8 updated country chapters(Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic and Spain); two updatedannexes (Annex 1: the text of the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits and Anne...
(2006)
Financing Water and Envi...
The Case of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
The current environmental situation of the countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA)is dire and challenges are mounting, but there are also new opportunities.This report explains the environmental challenges that these transition economies face, and as...
(2006)
Geographical Distributio...
This publication provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to around 150 developing countries for the period 2001-2005.The data show each country's intake of Official Development Assistance or Official Aid, as well as other off...
(2007)
Geographical Distributio...
This publication provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to over 180 recipient countries, including countries in transition in eastern Europe for the period 2000-2004. The data show each country's intake of Official Developme...
(2006)
The SME Financing Gap (V...
Proceedings of the Brasilia Conference, 27-30 March 2006
A significant number of entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) could use funds productively if they were available, but are often denied access to financing. This impedes their creation and growth. The "financing gap" was the subject of the OECD Global Con...
(2007)
The SME Financing Gap (V...
Theory and Evidence
The lack of fundingavailable from the financial sector for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is known as the "financing gap". This timely report analyses this gap for both credit and equity financing and seeks to determine how prevalent such a gap may be, both among OE...
(2006)
Financing Development
Aid and Beyond
Aid alone cannot finance development; bringing in fresh sources of finance is essential. The emergence of a multiplicity of new financing options is good news for developing countries, but it also raises challenges. The authors in this stimulating book assess the changing land...
(2007)
Geographical Distributio...
Disbursements, Commitments, Country Indicators
This publication provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to around 150 developing countries for the period 2002-2006.The data show each country's intake of Official Development Assistance or Official Aid, as well as other off...
(2008)
Export Credit Financing ...
2007 Update
Financing is essential for international trade, and the world's official export credit agencies play a vital role by providing, loans, guarantees and insurance for such finance. This publication offers a comprehensive description of the official export credit systems of OECD M...
(2008)
Geographical Distributio...
Disbursements, Commitments, Country Indicators
The 2009 edition of this publication provides comprehensive data on the volume, origin and types of aid and other resource flows to around 150 developing countries for the period 2003-2007. The data show each country's intake of official development assistance and well as othe...
(2009)
Financing Development 2008
Whose Ownership?
Aid alone cannot finance development; bringing in fresh sources of finance is essential. The emergence of a multiplicity of new financing options is good news for developing countries, but it also raises challenges. The authors in this stimulating book assess the changing land...
(2008)
The Financing of Nuclear...
Many countries have recognised that greater use of nuclear power could play a valuable role in reducing carbon dioxide emissions. However, given the high capital cost and complexity of nuclear power plants, financing their construction often remains a challenge. This is especi...
(2009)
