Finance & Banking Developments

Preface; Credit Rating Modelling by Neural Networks; Sticky Credit Spreads, Macroeconomic Activity & Equity Market Volatility; Profitability Determinants: An Empirical Study of Portuguese SMEs; Derivatives & Debt: The Market as God & Marketing as Prostyltizing; Assessing Household Vulnerability to Climate Change: The case of farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia; The Effects of Asymmetric Volatility Shocks on Equity & Foreign Exchange Rate Interactions; Banking Regulation & Procyclicality -- Cross-Country Analysis in EMU; Can Financial Information Distortion Events Facilitate Revision about Independent Directors Institution; Managerial Methods to Control Derivatives Losses; Asymptotic Expansion Approaches in Finance: Applications to Currency Options; An Analysis of the Determinants of Credit Default Swap Spread Changes before & during the Financial Turmoil; The Expenses Problem of Personal Financial Planning; Financial Crises & their Connections with Subprime Mortgage Debt & Bank Bailouts; Index.