1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455894503321

Titolo

The handbook of European fixed income securities [[electronic resource] /] / Frank J. Fabozzi, Moorad Choudhry, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : J. Wiley, c2004

ISBN

1-280-36813-6

9786610368136

0-471-64951-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1026 p.)

Collana

The Frank J. Fabozzi series

Altri autori (Persone)

FabozziFrank J

ChoudhryMoorad

Disciplina

332.632044

Soggetti

Fixed-income securities - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Handbook of European Fixed Income Securities; Contents; PREFACE; ABOUT THE EDITORS; CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS; SECTION ONE Background; CHAPTER 1 Introduction to European Fixed Income Securities and Markets; CHAPTER 2 Bondholder Value versus Shareholder Value; CHAPTER 3 Bond Pricing and Yield Measures; CHAPTER 4 Measuring Interest Rate Risk; SECTION TWO Products; CHAPTER 5 The Euro Government Bond Market; CHAPTER 6 The Eurobond Market; CHAPTER 7 The German Pfandbrief and European Covered Bonds Market; CHAPTER 8 European Inflation-Linked Bonds; CHAPTER 9 The United Kingdom Gilts Market

CHAPTER 10 The European Repo Market CHAPTER 11 European Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities; CHAPTER 12 European Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities; CHAPTER 13 European Credit Card ABS; CHAPTER 14 European Auto and Consumer Loan ABS; CHAPTER 15 Structured Credit: Cash Flow and Synthetic CDOs; SECTION THREE Interest Rate and Credit Derivatives; CHAPTER 16 European Interest Rate Futures: Instruments and Applications; CHAPTER 17 Interest Rate Options; CHAPTER 18 Pricing Options on Interest Rate Instruments; CHAPTER 19 Interest Rate Swaps



CHAPTER 20 A Practical Guide to Swap Curve Construction CHAPTER 21 Credit Derivatives; CHAPTER 22 The Pricing of Credit Default Swaps and Synthetic Collateralized Debt Obligations; SECTION FOUR Portfolio Management; CHAPTER 23 Fixed Income Risk Modeling for Portfolio Managers; CHAPTER 24 An Empirical Analysis of the Domestic and Euro Yield Curve Dynamics; CHAPTER 25 Tracking Error; CHAPTER 26 Portfolio Strategies for Outperforming a Benchmark; CHAPTER 27 Credit in Bond Portfolios; CHAPTER 28 Default and Recovery Rates in the Emerging European High-Yield Market

CHAPTER 29 Analysis and Evaluation of Corporate Bonds SECTION FIVE Legal Considerations; CHAPTER 30 Legal and Documentation Issues on Bonds Issuances; CHAPTER 31 Trust and Agency Services in the Debt Capital Markets; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

A well-rounded guide for those interested in European financial markets With the advent of the euro and formation of the European Union, financial markets on this continent are slowly beginning to gain momentum. Individuals searching for information on these markets have come up empty-until now. The Handbook of European Fixed Income Markets is the first book written on this burgeoning market. It contains extensive, in-depth coverage of every aspect of the current European fixed income markets and their derivatives. This comprehensive resource includes both a qualitative approach to products



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954779903321

Autore

Avishai Bernard

Titolo

Promiscuous : Portnoy's complaint and our doomed pursuit of happiness / / Bernard Avishai

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2012

ISBN

9786613601094

9781280571497

1280571497

9780300178111

0300178115

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LebowitzBrian E

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Satire, American - History and criticism

Jews in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Prologue Teaching Notes -- 1. A Novel in the Form of a Confession The Enigma of Portnoy, Who Is Not Roth -- 2. Really Icky Portnoy as Satirist -- 3. "The Best Kind": Portnoy as the Object of Satire -- 4. Punch Line: Psychoanalysis as the Object of Satire -- Conclusion You Are Not True -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The publication of Portnoy's Complaint in 1969 provoked instant, powerful reactions. It blasted Philip Roth into international fame, subjected him to unrelenting personal scrutiny and conjecture, and shocked legions of readers-some delighted, others appalled. Portnoy and other main characters became instant archetypes, and Roth himself became a touchstone for conflicting attitudes toward sexual liberation, Jewish power, political correctness, Freudian language, and bourgeois disgust. What about this book inspired Richard Lacayo of Time to describe it as "a literary instance of shock and awe," and the Modern Library to list it among the 100 best English-language novels of the twentieth century? Bernard Avishai offers a witty exploration of Roth's satiric masterpiece, based on the prolific novelist's own writings,



teaching notes, and personal interviews. In addition to discussing the book's timing, rhetorical gambit, and sheer virtuousity, Avishai includes a chapter on the Jewish community's outrage over the book and how Roth survived it, and another on the author's scorching treatment of psychoanalysis. Avishai shows that Roth's irreverent novel left us questioning who, or what, was the object of the satire. Hilariously, it proved the serious ways we construct fictions about ourselves and others.