1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462823403321

Titolo

No establishment of religion : America's original contribution to religious liberty / / edited by T. Jeremy Gunn, John Witte, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

0-19-986037-8

0-19-998601-0

1-283-84847-3

0-19-986038-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (871 p.)

Disciplina

322/.10973

Soggetti

Freedom of religion - United States

Church and state - United States

Electronic books.

United States Religion History

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.

Sommario/riassunto

The First Amendment guarantee that ""Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"" rejected the millennium-old Western policy of supporting one form of Christianity in each nation and subjugating all other faiths. The exact meaning and application of this American innovation, however, has always proved elusive. Individual states found it difficult to remove traditional laws that controlled religious doctrine, liturgy, and church life, and that discriminated against unpopular religions. They found it even harder to decide more subtle legal questions that continue to divid



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387876303316

Autore

Gesner Konrad <1516-1565.>

Titolo

A new booke of destillatyon of waters, called the Treasure of Euonymus [[electronic resource] ] : containing the wonderful hid secrets of nature, touching the most apt formes to prepare & destill medicines, for the conservation of helth ... / / translated (with great diligence & labour) out of Latin, by Peter Morwyng felowe of Magdaline Colledge in Oxforde ; whereunto is added a profitable table or index for the better finding of al such waters as serue aswel for medicines .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprinted at London, : By Iohn Day. dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, beneath Synt Martines, The first of June, 1565

Descrizione fisica

[1+] p

Altri autori (Persone)

MorwenPeter

Soggetti

Distillation

Medicine

Title pages16th century.EnglandLondon

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Publication date from colophon of other copy.

Imperfect: fragment, t.p. only; cropped and stained, with loss of print.

Reproduction of original in: British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910965991703321

Autore

Gregory Jon <1971->

Titolo

Counterparty credit risk : the new challenge for global financial markets / / Jon Gregory

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, U.K., : Wiley, c2010

ISBN

9786613239518

9781283239516

1283239515

9780470972724

0470972726

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (450 p.)

Collana

Wiley finance

Disciplina

332.6457

Soggetti

Derivative securities - Mathematical models

Risk management

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

Counterparty Credit Risk: The New Challenge for Global Financial Markets; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Spreadsheets; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Setting the Scene; 1.1 Financial risk management; 1.1.1 Market risk; 1.1.2 Liquidity risk; 1.1.3 Operational risk; 1.1.4 Credit risk; 1.1.5 Value-at-risk; 1.1.6 Disadvantages of value-at-risk; 1.2 The failure of models; 1.2.1 Why models?; 1.2.2 Good model, bad model; 1.3 The derivatives market; 1.3.1 What is a derivative?; 1.3.2 Market structure; 1.4 Risks of derivatives; 1.4.1 Too big to fail; 1.4.2 Systemic risk

1.4.3 Compensation culture 1.4.4 Credit derivatives; 1.5 Counterparty risk in context; 1.5.1 What is counterparty risk?; 1.5.2 Mitigation of counterparty risk; 1.5.3 Counterparty risk and integration of risk types; 1.5.4 Counterparty risk and today's derivatives market; 2 Defining Counterparty Credit Risk; 2.1 Introducing counterparty risk; 2.1.1 Origins of counterparty risk; 2.1.2 Repos; 2.1.3 Exchange-traded derivatives; 2.1.4 OTC derivatives; 2.1.5 Counterparty risk; 2.1.6 Counterparty risk versus lending risk; 2.1.7 Mitigating counterparty risk; 2.1.8 Counterparty risk players



2.2 Components and terminology 2.2.1 Credit exposure; 2.2.2 Default probability and credit migration; 2.2.3 Recovery; 2.2.4 Mark-to-market; 2.2.5 Replacement cost; 2.2.6 Exposure; 2.2.7 Exposure as a short option position; 2.2.8 Potential future exposure (PFE); 2.3 Controlling counterparty credit risk; 2.3.1 Trading with high-quality counterparties; 2.3.2 Cross-product netting; 2.3.3 Close-out; 2.3.4 Collateralisation; 2.3.5 Walkaway features; 2.3.6 Monolines; 2.3.7 Diversification of counterparty risk; 2.3.8 Exchanges and centralised clearing houses; 2.4 Quantifying counterparty risk

2.4.1 Credit lines 2.4.2 Pricing counterparty risk; 2.4.3 Hedging counterparty risk; 2.4.4 Capital requirements and counterparty risk; 2.5 Metrics for credit exposure; 2.5.1 Expected MtM; 2.5.2 Expected exposure; 2.5.3 Potential future exposure; 2.5.4 EE and PFE for a normal distribution; 2.5.5 Overview of exposure metrics; 2.5.6 Expected positive exposure; 2.5.7 Effective EPE; 2.5.8 Maximum PFE; 2.6 Summary; Appendix 2.A Characterising exposure for a normal distribution; 3 Mitigating Counterparty Credit Risk; 3.1 Introduction; 3.1.1 Two-way or one-way agreements; 3.1.2 Standardisation

3.2 Default-remote entities 3.2.1 High-quality counterparties; 3.2.2 Special purpose vehicles; 3.2.3 Central counterparties; 3.3 Termination and walkaway features; 3.3.1 Termination events; 3.3.2 Additional termination events; 3.3.3 Walkaway features; 3.4 Netting and close-out; 3.4.1 Close-out; 3.4.2 Payment and close-out netting; 3.4.3 The need for close-out netting; 3.4.4 The birth of netting; 3.4.5 Netting agreements; 3.4.6 The ISDA Master Agreement; 3.4.7 Product coverage; 3.4.8 Netting and exposure; 3.4.9 Advantages and disadvantages of netting; 3.4.10 Multilateral netting

3.5 Netting and exposure

Sommario/riassunto

The first decade of the 21st Century has been disastrous for financial institutions, derivatives and risk management. Counterparty credit risk has become the key element of financial risk management, highlighted by the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers and failure of other high profile institutions such as Bear Sterns, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The sudden realisation of extensive counterparty risks has severely compromised the health of global financial markets. Counterparty risk is now a key problem for all financial institutions. This book explains the emergence of c