Download or read book New Developments in Financial Modelling written by Margarida Catalão-Lopes and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a variety of issues, methods and market instruments that should prove useful for topics courses, finance and asset management practice, and also foster future research. This collection of contributions is a selected subset of those presented at the XLI Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Financial Modelling, Lisbon, November 2007, and has a rich manifold of applied, theoretical and methodological work: • Banking, empirical assessment of efficiency and relationship banking; • Corporate Governance; • Market Microstructure: liquidity; price limits; volatility; • Risk: sovereign debt rating; volatility-volume around takeover announcements; • Multicriteria approach and portfolio selection; • Modified Tempered Stable Distribution and GARCH modelling. In sum, this contributed volume, joining many authors from academia and practice on finance, offers a multiplicity of issues and methodology that broadens the knowledge and skills in finance matters and raises research questions for further development.