China's Financial Markets : An Insider's Guide to How the Markets Work
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Book Description
Chinas financial markets represent about $2 trillion and are expected to grow to about $10 trillion by 2008. As these markets continue to open to outside investment, a thorough understanding of how they operate will be essential for success. In this book, Salih Neftci, an expert in finance whose teaching and research span North America, Europe and Asia, and Michelle Menager-Xu, a Chinese finance professional currently working in Geneva, bring together an unprecedented collection of Chinese insiders who are experts in their respective industries. These experts provide a detailed description of the banking system, the money, equity, futures, FX, and bond markets, the insurance sector, the mortgage market and mortgage instruments, and the regulators. Readers will learn how each of these financial sectors operates, how the government, regulators, and the central bank are involved, each sectors history, size and projected growth, an analysis of its current situation and discussion of future trends, the major players, and how the game is played. This is a must-read book for financial success in this emerging market.
*Experts within China working in each sector provide detailed, completely up-to-date descriptions and analysis
*CDROM contains English translations of relevant Chinese regulations not available elsewhere
*Describes how the major regulators work and the key influence factors in each industry
About the Author
Salih Neftci is currently teaching at Hong Kong University of Technology, ICMA Centre, University of Reading, UK, and in the graduate schools at City University of New York and New School University, New York, NY. He writes regular financial columns for the Chinese Press. Dr. Neftci is also Risk Management Advisor to the IMF. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the US Department of State and the Agency for International Development. His teaching is in the areas of numerical methods in asset pricing, the mathematics of financial derivatives, emerging market asset trading strategies, and advanced risk management. Salih Neftci completed his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota and subsequently taught at George Washington University, Columbia University, and the Graduate Institute for International Economics, Geneva.
Michelle Yuan Menager-Xu is an associate of the Swiss Actuarial Society. She graduated from the School of Business, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She holds Masters degrees in both Actuarial Science and Finance. She is writing her Doctoral Thesis at the Institute of Actuarial Science, Lausanne University. Her research focuses on applications of swaption pricing theory to surrender options found in insurance contracts. She has worked at Swiss Reinsurance Company in Zurich, Switzerland, and was in charge of business in the China Region (Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao), including risk management, reserve issues, and various insurance and bank-insurance product pricing.
China's Financial Markets : An Insider's Guide to How the Markets Work,Salih N. Neftci,Michelle Yuan Menager-Xu,Academic Press,0120885808,Banks & Banking,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Finance,International - Economics,Business & Economics / Finance
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