European Fixed Income Markets : Money, Bond, and Interest Rate Derivatives

by Batten, Jonathan A.; Fetherston, Thomas A.; Szilagyi, Peter G.

• ISBN13: 9780470850534
• ISBN10: 0470850531
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-12
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

The introduction of the euro in 1999 cast a new focus on the financial markets of constituent euro-zone countries, which have subsequently emerged with the second largest bond market in the world. This new book offers in depth insights and advice for any practitioner in the European fixed-income and ancillary derivative markets, and includes in-depth analysis of euro and non-euro markets as well as emerging countries.

Author Biography

<b>JONATHAN A. BATTEN</b> is Professor of Finance at Seoul National University in Korea and co-editor of the Elsevier Journal <i>Research in International Business and Finance.</i> His previous books include <i>Asia-Pacific Fixed Income Markets: An Analysis of the Region's Money, Bond and Interest Derivative Markets,</i> co-edited with Thomas A Fetherston and published by John Wiley &amp; Sons, Singapore. <p> <b>THOMAS A. FETHERSTON</b> is Professor of Finance at the University of Alabama Birmingham.&#160; He is editor of the journal <i>International Review of Financial Analysis</i> and co-editor of <i>Research in International Business and Finance.</i> His previous books include <i>Asia-Pacific Fixed Income Markets: An Analysis of the Region's Money, Bond and Interest Derivative Markets,</i> co-edited with Jonathan A. Batten and published by John Wiley &amp; Sons, Singapore. <p> <b>PETER G. SZILIAGYI</b> has recently joined Tilburg University, the Netherlands.&#160; His main research interests include international capital market develop ment and corporate finance.&#160; He holds master s degrees from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration and the University of Western Sydney.&#160; He has previously worked as a freeelance broadcaster for the BBC World Service in the U.K. and Australia. <p>

Table of Contents

SECTION I PERSPECTIVE ON EUROPEAN FIXED INCOME AND DERIVATIVE MARKETS.

1. European Fixed Income Markets (Jonathan A. Batten, et al.).

2. The Euro Area Bond Market: Integration and Development Under Monetary Union (Peter G. Szilagyi).

3. Perspective on the Emerging European Financial Markets (Peter G. Szilagyi, et al.).

4. Perspective on European Derivative Markets (Martin Young).

5. Benchmark Yield Curves in the Euro Market (Philip Wooldridge).

6. Some Facts on Pfandbrief Products in Europe (Orazio Mastroeni).

SECTION II COUNTRY STUDIES.

7. Austria (Vanessa Seconnino and Alham Yussaf).

8. Belgium (Jan Annaert and Marc De Ceuster).

9. Czech Republic (Jonathan A. Batten and Guan Chye Ooi).

10. Denmark (Charlotte Christiansen, et al.).

11. An Empirical Study of The Term Structure of Interest Rates in Denmark, 1993-2002 (Charlotte Christiansen, et al.).

12. Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden (Seppo Pynnonen).

13. France (David Edwards and Cameron Makepeace).

14. Germany (Niklas Wagner).

15. Greece (Thomas Fetherston).

16. Hungary (Nora Nemeth and Laszlo Szilagyi).

17. Italy (Walter Vecchiato).

18. Netherlands (Albert Mentink).

19. Poland (Peter Szilagyi).

20. Portugal (Peter Szilagyi).

21. Russia (Leonid V. Philosophov and Vladimir Philosophov).

22. Spain (Petra Penzes).

23. Switzerland (Heinz R. Kubli).

24. Turkey (Caner Bakir and Kym Brown).

25. United Kingdom (Frank S. Skinner).

Index.