Год выпуска: 0 Автор: Jonathan A. Batten, Thomas A. Fetherston, Peter G. Szilagyi Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 0470850531
Описание
This book offers a clear, insightful perspective on the post-euro fixed-income markets of Europe. The introduction of the euro in 1999 cast a new focus on the financial markets of constituent euro-zone countries which have subsequently seen their domestic markets emerge as the second largest bond market in the world after America, with bonds being the most important asset-class-rivalling equities. Such critical size and importance results from the harmonization of macro-economic targets, and has considerably broadened the scope of individual national debt markets. The essential characteristics and institutional details of the fixed-income markets of euro-zone countries as well as their individual fixed-income market are introduced and discussed by 26 prominent international academics and market practitioners. Their unique and detailed country analyses of both the euro and non-euro European countries will add measurably to an understanding of these markets. There has...