Capital market and rating agencies in Asia : structuring a credit risk rating model / Yoshitaka Kurosawa, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kurosawa, Yoshitaka.

Series:

Asian economic and political issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capital market--Asia.

Capital market.

Rating agencies (Finance)--Asia.

Rating agencies (Finance).

Credit ratings--Asia.

Credit ratings.

Financial risk management--Asia--Mathematical models.

Financial risk management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Credit Rating originated in the USA has spread out to the world since the 1980s. Credit risk is a risk that a borrower either through bonds or bank loans bears a possibility of being unable to pay interest and principal repayments in accordance with its agreement. Credit Rating influences not only corporate bonds and structured finance, but sovereign countries such as Greek economy, Japan's government bonds and even emerging country's economic performance. This book focuses on the activities of credit rating agencies in Asia of ten countries other than Japan including China, Korea, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Uzbekistan.

Contents:

Introduction : capital markets and credit rating in Asia / Yoshitaka Kurosawa

Korea / Hidetoshi Mitsui, Hye Sun Kim, Jung-Dong Kim

Malaysia / Hidetoshi Hashimoto, Chong Kwee Siong

India / Hideaki Ohta

China / Naoki Murakami, Ivan Chung, Yubo Zhan

Thailand / Hidenobu Okuda ... [et al.]

Pakistan / Hideaki Ohta

Bangladesh / Mitsuru Mizuno, M.T. Islam

Uzbekistan / Mitsuru Mizuno

Philippines / Hideaki Ohta, Santiago F. Dumlao, Jr.

Taipei, China (Taiwan) / Naoki Murakami, Chiung-Feng Ko.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61942-122-4