Governance And Risk in Emerging And Globe Markets

The book features eight studies related to governance and risk. It provides a critical evaluation of Basel II, and questions the significance of corruption in country risk analysis and investors’ decision making. It offers a reliable model of early warning credit signals that helps managers to detect default risks, and provides a risk-based analysis of alternative production systems in Pakistan. It analyzes the effects of market liberalization on volatility spill-over across the globe, and examines past and future prospects for the Iraqi stock exchange. Finally, it proposes securitization as a means to finance costs of reconstruction in Iraq.

MICHELE H. BOUCHET Professor of Finance, CERAM Sophia Antipolis, France MAQSOOD HUSSEIN Lecturer of Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan BERTRAND GROSLAMBERT Professor of Finance, CERAM Sophia Antipolis, France TALAL KADHIM Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods, Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, UK DUC NGUYEN Researcher in Finance, University of Grenoble II, France ANN PURI Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods, Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, UK ABDUL SABOOR Lecturer of Economics, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan KADOM SHUBBER Senior Lecturer in Finance, Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, UK OLA SHOLARIN Lecturer in Economics and Quantitative Economics, Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, UK JOE TANEGA Senior Lecturer in Business Law, Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, UK HARRY THAPAR Senior Lecturer in Business Law, Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, UK