(Hardback)

Credit risk is today one of the most intensely studied topics in quantitative finance. This book provides an introduction and overview for readers who seek an up-to-date reference to the central problems of the field and to the tools currently used to analyze them. The book is aimed at researchers and students in finance, at quantitative analysts i

(Hardback)

Offers a treatment of the conceptual, practical, and empirical foundations for credit risk pricing and risk measurement. This book models credit risk for the purpose of measuring portfolio risk and pricing defaultable bonds, credit derivatives, and other securities exposed to credit risk. It is intended as a resource for researchers and students.

(Hardback)

(Hardback, fifth edition)

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of a textbook for graduate students in finance, with new coverage of global financial institutions.

(Hardback)

Offers the first history of predatory lending in the United States. It traces the origins of modern consumer lending to such older practices as salary buying and hidden interest charges. Yet, as Geisst shows, no-holds-barred loan sharking is not a thing of the past. Many current lending practices employed today would have been easily recognizable at the end of the nineteenth century.

(Paperback, second edition)

The definitive account of the trillion-dollar payment card industry.