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Performance, risk and competition in the Chinese banking industry by Tan, Yong

Table of Contents: “…Methodology behind estimating bank competitionLiterature review; Empirical results; Summary and conclusion; Notes; 6 Further development in the Chinese banking sector; Setting up a fair and equitable salary system; Internationalization; Growth of urbanization; Capital replenishment; Upgrading innovation capacity; Implementation of Basel III Capital Accord; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Conclusion; Introduction and summary of findings; Policy implications and further development of Chinese banking; Notes; References; Index…”
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Quality of financial sector regulation and supervision around the world by Čihák, Martin, Tieman, Alexander F.

Table of Contents: “…Compliance in Detail: Basel Core Principles; 6. Compliance in Detail: IAIS Principles; 7. …”
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Changing Face of Money : Will Electric Money Be Adopted in the United States?. by Good, Barbara Ann

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Democratic Republic of the Congo. by Department, International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets

Table of Contents: “…The Resolution of the Banque Congolaise; IV. Observance of the Basel Core Principles; V. Stress Test Matrix.…”
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Monetary Policy, Capital Flows and Exchange Rates : Essays in Memory of Maxwell Fry.

Table of Contents: “…Reducing the cost of bank crises: is Basel enough?: Jerry Caprio and Patrick Honohan7. …”
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Bank Loan Classification and Provisioning Practices in Selected Developed and Emerging Countries.

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Driving desired futures : turning design thinking into real innovation

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Gert Wingårdh : Thirty Years of Architecture. by Nanfeldt, Mikael

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Graeme Mann & Patricia Capua Mann / Graeme Mann and Patricia Capua Mann

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Urbanism and dictatorship : a European perspective

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Why Is landscape beautiful? : the science of strollology by Burckhardt, Lucius

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The Articulate Surface : Ornament and Technology in Contemporary Architecture. by Pell, Ben

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Idiomatic creativity : a cognitive-linguistic model of idiom-representation and idiom-variation in English by Langlotz, Andreas

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Exhibitions and displays : museum design concepts, brand presentation, trade show design

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Rural urban frameworks : transforming the Chinese countryside by Bolchover, Joshua, Lin, John

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Growing wild : the correspondence of a pioneering woman naturalist from the Cape by Barber, Mary Elizabeth, 1818-1899

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Christlicher Republikanismus in den Bibeldramen Sixt Bircks. by Pfeiffer, Judith

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Le Corbusier? Les Villas La Roche-Jeanneret by Sbriglio, Jacques

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Hermann Herrey : Werk und Leben 1904-1968 by Stegers, Rudolf

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Building with bamboo / Design and technology of a sustainable architecture by Minke, Gernot

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Gateways to the Book Frontispieces and Title Pages in Early Modern Europe. by Bertram, Gitta

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 9 Travels towards Humankind's Salvation, Travels through Nature Enlightened by Science: Frontispieces on Africa and the Levant, 17th-18th Centuries -- Part 3 Case Studies -- Chapter 10 A Moralistic Journey: The Tabula Cebes as an Architectural and Spatial Allegory in Sixteenth-Century Basel -- Chapter 11 Rubens's Legacy in Book Design -- Chapter 12 The Title Page of Jacob van der Gracht's Anatomie and 17th-Century Dutch Artists' Education in Anatomy -- Chapter 13 The Role of Multiple Frontispieces in the Cultus Sancti Francisci Xaverii…”
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Digital workflows in architecture : designing design -- designing assembly -- designing industry

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Native estates : records of mobility across colonial boundaries by Namhila, Ellen Ndeshi

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What nostalgia was : war, empire, and the time of a deadly emotion by Dodman, Thomas

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Bubble value at risk : a countercyclical risk management approach by Wong, Max C. Y. (Max Chan Yue)

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The liquidity risk management guide : from policy to pitfalls by Adalsteinsson, Gudni, 1967-

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Handbook of asset and liability management : from models to optimal return strategies by Adam, Alexandre

Table of Contents: “…PART V TOOLS FOR ASSET AND LIABILITY MANAGERS21 Simulation tools for interest rates and other financial indexes21.1 Stochastic calculation21.2 Equity market simulation21.3 Interest rate simulation21.4 Generic models for joint simulation of inflation, stock index, interest rates, real estate, liquidity and credit spreads21.5 Market simulations including risk premiums22 Delta equivalent computation22.1 Principles22.2 Delta, penta, correla and courba equivalents or "Adam equivalents"22.3 Delta equivalent associated break-even point22.4 Examples of delta equivalent computation22.5 Hedging error and gamma equivalent23 Technical tools useful in ALM23.1 Risk measures23.2 Optimization methods23.3 Common statistical tools in ALM23.4 Other statistical tools and common ALM functionsPART VI ECONOMIC VALUE AND NEW RISK INDICATORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE BASEL II AND SOLVENCY II REGULATORY PERSPECTIVE24 Basel II regulation and Solvency II24.1 Common regulatory risk constraints24.2 Basel II: normalized regulatory constraints24.3 Solvency II25 Links between ALM and financial analysis25.1 Performance indicators in the company25.2 Shareholder's equity value, economic value and risk premiums25.3 Capital allocation/attribution and capital consumption25.4 Company valuation and cost of capital with positive tax rate25.5 Merton's model25.6 Financial analysis and ALM implications26 Towards economic capital indicators26.1 Economic capital and its implications26.2 Economic capital computation main hypotheses26.3 ALM stress testing26.4 Credit risk economic capital computation26.5 Economic capital in ALM26.6 IFRS and regulation implications for ALM26.7 New indicators for the economic value approachPART VII OPTIMAL RETURN STRATEGIES27 Risk perfect hedging using the delta equivalent technique27.1 Micro hedging strategies with structured products27.2 Delta hedging strategies27.3 Example of a bank balance sheet with demand deposits28 Limits policy28.1 Economic capital limit28.2 Setting economic capital limits28.3 Gap limit28.4 Income sensitivity limit29 Income smoothing strategies29.1 Important preliminary comment about income smoothing and fraud29.2 Examples of income smoothing29.3 Example of a cumulative AFS bonds income smoothing strategy29.4 ALM and Hawks martingale30 Economic value management: the A/L manager's optimization programme under economic capital constraints and accounting constraints30.1 Point of view of "traditional A/L managers" and criticism of the models30.2 Economic value management30.3 Economic value optimization using grid methodology31 Application to Banking Book activities31.1 Deposit accounts: valuation and hedging in an economic capital approach using the grid methodology31.2 Application to Stock Market Book31.3 Application to Credit Risk Book31.4 Prepayment risk optimal hedging strategies31.5 Application to a global Banking Book including business and model risk31.6 Direct demand deposit income smoothing through a simple example32 Economic value management in insurance companies and in Capital Book management32.1 Economic value management in insurance companies32.2 Application to economic Capital Book managementPART VIII CONCLUSIONS ON THE ALM OF TOMORROW33 Conclusions on the future of ALM33.1 ALM diversity33.2 ALM benchmarking33.3 Conclusions on ALM and modelsPART IX ANNEXES34 Statistical advanced tools34.1 Extreme points34.2 Copulas35 The basis of interest rate modelling35.1 Yield curve reconstitution35.2 Yield curve stochastic interest rate modelsBibliographyIndex.…”
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Analyzing and Managing Banking Risk : a Framework for Assessing Corporate Governance and Financial Risk. by Greuning, Hennie van

Table of Contents: “…Analyzing and Managing Banking Risk -- Introduction: The Changing Bank Environment -- Bank Exposure to Risk -- Corporate Governance -- Risk-Based Analysis of Banks -- Analytical Tools Provided -- A Context for the Risk-Based Review of Banks -- Introduction: Why Banks Are Analyzed -- Banks as Providers of Financial Information -- A Framework for Financial Sector Development -- A Holistic View of the Entire Financial System -- Disclosure and Transparency of Bank Financial Information: A Prerequisite for Risk-Based Analysis -- Key Players in the Corporate Governance and Risk Management Process -- Introduction: Corporate Governance Principles -- Regulatory Authorities: Establishing a Corporate Governance and Risk Management Framework -- Supervisory Authorities: Monitoring Risk Management -- The Shareholders: Appointing the Right Policymakers -- The Board of Directors: Ultimate Responsibility for a Bank's Affairs -- Management: Responsibility for Bank Operations and the Implementation of Risk Management Policies -- The Audit Committee and Internal Auditors: An Extension of the Board's Risk Management Function -- External Auditors: A Reassessment of the Traditional Approach of Auditing Bank -- The Role of the General Public -- Balance Sheet Structure and Management -- Introduction: Composition of the Balance Sheet -- Asset Structure: Growth and Changes -- Liabilities Structure: Growth and Changes -- Overall On- and Off-Balance-Sheet Growth -- Managing Risk Effectively -- Profitability -- Introduction: The Importance of Profitable Banks -- Income Statement Composition -- Income Structure and Profit Quality -- Profitability Indicators -- Profitability Ratio Analysis -- Capital Adequacy -- Introduction: The Characteristics and Functions of Capital -- Constituents of Regulatory Capital (Current Methodology) -- Coverage of Risk Components by Constituents of Capital (Current Methodology) -- Basel II: Proposed Changes for Determining Capital Adequacy -- Implementation of the Basel Accord -- Assessing Management Information with Respect to Capital Adequacy -- Credit Risk Management -- Introduction: Components of Credit Risk -- Credit Portfolio Management -- Review of Lending Function and Operations -- Credit Portfolio Quality Review -- Nonperforming Loan Portfolio -- Credit Risk Management Policies -- Policies to Limit or Reduce Credit Risk -- Asset Classification -- Loan Loss Provisioning Policy -- Liquidity Risk Management -- Introduction: The Need for Liquidity -- Liquidity Management Policies -- The Regulatory Environment -- The Structure of Funding: Deposits and Market Borrowing -- Maturity Structure and Funding Mismatches -- Deposit Concentration and Volatility of Funding -- Liquidity Risk Management Techniques -- Treasury Organization and Risk Management -- Introduction: Overview of Treasury Functions -- Establishing the Overall Policy Framework -- Market Operations -- Risk Analytics and Compliance -- Treasury Operations -- Corporate Governance and Operational Risk Assessment -- Management of the Stable Liquidity Investment Portfolio -- Nature of the Stable Liquidity Investment Portfolio -- Investment Policy -- Eligible Instruments -- Credit Risk -- Market Risk -- Benchmark Portfolio -- Active Management -- Risk Management and Risk Budgets -- Management Reporting -- Market Risk Management and Proprietary Trading -- Introduction: Market Risk Characteristics -- Portfolio Risk Management Policies -- Trading Book and Management of Trading Activities -- Market Risk Measurement -- Value at Risk -- Stress Testing -- Interest Rate Risk Management -- Introduction: Sources of Interest Rate Risk -- Risk Management Responsibilities -- Models for the Management of Interest Rate Risk -- The Impact of Changes in Forecast Yield Curves -- Currency Risk Management -- Introduction: Origin and Components of Currency Risk -- Policies for Currency Risk Management -- Currency Risk Exposure and Business Strategy -- Currency Risk Management and Capital Adequacy -- Transparency in the Financial Statements of Banks -- Introduction: The Importance of Useful Information -- Transparency and Accountability -- Transparency in Financial Statements -- Disclosure in the Financial Statements of Banks -- Deficiencies Found in Bank Accounting Practices -- The Relationship between Risk Analysis and Bank Supervision -- Introduction: The Bank Supervisory Process -- The Analytical Review Process -- Banking Risks and the Accountability of Regulatory/Supervisory Authorities -- The Supervisory Process -- Consolidated Supervision -- Supervisory Cooperation with Internal and External Auditors -- Background Questionnaire to Facilitate Analysis of Banks -- IAS-Required Disclosure in Financial Statements, by Risk Category -- Deficiencies Found in Accounting Practices -- A New Philosophy of Bank Supervision -- The Role of the Board -- The Board's Financial Risk Management Responsibilities -- Accountability of Bank Management -- "Fit and Proper" Standards for Bank Management -- Financial Risk and Management Responsibilities -- Internal Audit Controversies -- The Responsibilities of Audit Committees and Internal Auditors -- Financial Risk Management Responsibilities of External Auditors -- Content of a Loan Review File -- Signs of Distorted Credit Culture -- Asset Classification Rules -- Typical Liquidity Regulations or Internal Liquidity Guidelines -- ALM Mission Statement -- Asset Classes -- Criteria for Evaluating Accounting Standards -- Survey on Public Disclosures of Banks -- The Banking Risk Spectrum -- Partnership in Corporate Governance of Banks -- A Framework for Financial Sector Development -- Holistic View of the Financial System: A Template for Financial Sector Review -- Balance Sheet Components -- Structural Change and Assets Growth -- Changes in the Structure of a Bank's Assets Portfolio -- Structural Change and Growth of Capital and Liabilities -- Total Growth -- Low and Nonearning Assets as a Percentage of Total Assets -- Off-Balance-Sheet Items as a Percentage of Total Assets -- Structure of Gross Income -- Asset Structure versus Income Structure -- Sources of Income versus Costs -- Operating Income Ratios -- Average Yield Differential on Intermediation Business -- Return on Assets (ROA) and on Equity (ROE) -- Components of Shareholders' Funds -- Risk Profile of Assets -- Risk Profile of On- and Off-Balance-Sheet Items -- Actual versus Required Capital -- Estimating Potential Capital Requirement -- Loans to Customers Per Borrower Group -- Customer Loans by Product -- Maturity of Loans to Customers -- Loan Portfolio Statistics -- Exposure to the 20 Largest Borrowers -- Sectoral Analysis of Loans -- Classification of Loans -- Statutory Liquidity Required versus Actual Liquid Assets Held -- Customer Deposits by Sector -- Maturity Mismatch -- Maturities of Deposits Payable in Local Currency -- Ten Largest Sources of Deposits as Percentage of Total Customer Deposits -- Liquidity Statistics -- Holistic View of the Treasury Environment -- Benchmarking -- Operationalization of Strategic Asset Allocation -- Potential Risk Analytics Reports -- Example of Daily/Monthly Checklist of Portfolio Compliance Issues -- Treasury Operations: Reporting (Funding and Investment Business) -- Risk Management in the Treasury -- Trading Portfolio -- Marking to Market -- Potential Amount of Qualifying Capital Exposed -- Current and Forecast Yield Curves -- Potential Effect on Capital due to a Movement in Expected Yield Curve -- Currency Structure of Assets and Liabilities -- Currency Structure of Loan Portfolio and Customer Deposits -- Freely Convertible Currency Deposit Maturities as a Percentage of Total Customer Deposits -- Currency Risk Exposure as a Percentage of Qualifying Capital -- Transparency in Financial Statements -- The Context of Bank Supervision -- Banking Risk Exposures -- Possible Uses of Tools Provided -- Key Players and Their Responsibilities in Bank Governance and Risk Management -- Shareholder Information -- Supervisory Board/Board of Directors -- A Bank's Balance Sheet Structure -- Total Growth of Balance-Sheet and Off-Balance-Sheet Items -- Composition of Income and Expenses -- Profitability Ratios -- Credit Risk Multiplication Factors for Derivative Instruments -- Summary of Basel II Proposals -- Proposed Standardized Approach: Risk Weights Based on External Ratings -- Operational Risk: Business Lines and Operational Loss Event Types -- Capital Adequacy Ratios -- Calculating the Allowable Portion of Tier 3 Capital -- Loan Portfolio Statistics -- Related-Party Lending -- Recommended Provisions -- Maturity Ladder under Alternative Scenarios -- Liquidity Ratios -- Credit Risk Management Tools -- Examples of U.S. …”
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The Netherlands and European integration, 1950 to present by Segers, Mathieu

Table of Contents: “…A Europe of conspiracies (1957-1968) -- Faust in Paris -- Rhetoric and intrigue -- Market expansion by a gentleman farmer -- Silence is golden -- 6. At home in the Basel biotope (1968-1974) -- American dreams -- An alternative loan circuit -- Holtrop's logic…”
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Istanbul as a Global Financial Center. by Karagöz, Murat

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 4: Financial Crisis and IndexExploring Islamic Indices in the Great Recession; The Baltic Dry Index as a Leading Economic Indicator; BDI and Economic Growth in United States; Chapter 5: Banking; Can Foreigners Improve the Efficiency of Emerging Market Banks?; Adapting the Basel III Regulations to Real Sector Firms; Section 2: Foreign Trade, FDI and Political Risk; Chapter 6: FDI and Political Risk; FDI, Political Risk and Democracy, Again; Chapter 7: Foreign Trade; Competitiveness and Export Quality; Restrictions in EU-USA Services Trade; Section 3: Growth, Industrialization and Labor.…”
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Sublimes Visions : Architectures dans les Alpes by Stacher, Susanne

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Dense + green : innovative building types for sustainable urban architecture / Dense and green by Schröpfer, Thomas

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Convergent flux : contemporary architecture and urbanism in Korea by Park, Jinhee

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Plastics : in architecture and construction by Engelsmann, Stephan

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The Global Contemporary Art World by Harris, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- Introduction: "Global," "Contemporary," "Art," "World" -- Entering the Maze -- Modernity, Contemporary Art and Globalization -- Five Asian Centers within the Global Contemporary Art World -- Global Crash, Crises and the Art World -- Contemporary Art in the Friezer -- 1 Doing the Business -- Hong Kong Gets the Art Basel Treatment -- Offshore Art Business in the Global Neoliberal Capitalist Economy -- Combined and Uneven Development in the Hong Kong Art World -- Hong Kong's Art World Inside and Outside China…”
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Lobmeyr Contemporary : Entwürfe seit 2000 = Design since 2000

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Diagonal strategies : Berger + Parkkinen Architekten by Barrachina Pastor, Francisco

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Wood and wood joints : building traditions of Europe, Japan and China by Zwerger, Klaus, 1956-

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Interior spaces : space, light, material

Table of Contents: “…Space, light and material: Concepts for interior design / Christian Schittich -- The architect as designer of space: Classic modernism / Christoph Hölz -- The practice of interior finishing / Gerhard Landau and Ludwig Kindelbacher -- The examples: -- House in Vila Nova / Alvaro Siza Vieira, Porto -- Attic in Vienna / Hubmann & Vass, Vienna -- Duplex apartment in New York / Maya Lin in collaboration with David Hotson, New York -- House in Ito / Motoyoshi Itagaki & Hiromi Sugimoto, Tokyo -- Chapel in Valleacerón / Sancho Madridejos, Madrid -- Synagogue in Dresden / Wandel, Hoefer, Lorch + Hirsch, Saarbrücken -- Kindergarten in Lustenau / Dietrich und Untertrifaller, Bregenz -- Fashion boutique in Munich / Petzinka Pink Architekten, Düsseldorf -- Jewellery boutique in Munich / Landau + Kindelbacher, Munich -- Cosmetics shop in New York / Architecture Research Office, New York -- Fashion shop in Vienna / propeller z, Vienna -- Fashion shop in London / Future Systems, London -- Supermarket in Wattens / Dominique Perrault, Paris; Reichert Pranschke Maluche, Munich -- Eat in/Take out restaurant in Tokyo / Klein Dytham architecture, Tokyo -- Brasserie in New York / Diller + Scofidio, New York -- Bar in Heidelberg / liquid architektur/landschaft, Darmstadt -- Office bar in Tokyo / Klein Dytham architecture, Tokyo -- Architects' office in Berlin / Nietz Prasch Sigl Tchoban Voss, Berlin -- Agency in Munich / lynx architecture, Munich; with tools off.architecture, Munich -- Royal Library in Copenhagen / Schmidt, Hammer & Lassen, Copenhagen -- National Library of France in Paris / Dominique Perrault, Paris in collaboration with Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost -- Tate Modern in London / Herzog & de Meuron, Basel -- Congress Centre in Barcelona / Carlos Ferrater, Barcelona -- Concert Hall in León / Mansilla + Tuñón, León -- Metropolitan Express, Hamburg -- Cologne / von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, Hamburg -- "Am Moosfeld" underground station in Munich / Kessler & Sturm, Munich; lighting design: Ingo Maurer, Munich -- "Westfriedhof" underground station in Munich / Auer + Weber, Munich; lighting design: Ingo Maurer, Munich -- Architects -- Illustration credits.…”
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Creating desired futures : how design thinking innovates business

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