Commodity risk management and finance /

The collection of papers brought together in this volume was written to advance knowledge about the demand, pricing, and use of commodity-linked finance. During the 1980s it became obvious that developing countries faced great difficulties in raising external finance and in servicing their external...

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Other Authors: Priovolos, Theophilos, ed, Duncan, Ronald C, ed
Format: Book
Published: New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1991
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction / Theophilos Priovolos and Ronald C. Duncan
  • Pt. 1: The pricing of commodity-linked securities: 2. Experience with commodity-linked issues / Theophilos Priovolos
  • 3. The demand for commodity bonds / Moctar A. Fall
  • 4. A review of methods for pricing commodity-linked securities / Theophilos Priovolos
  • 5. Pricing commodity bonds using binomial option pricing / Raghuram Rajan
  • Pt. 2: Commodity contingency in the internal lending of developing countries: 6. Optimal external debt management with commodity-linked bonds / Robert J. Myers and Stanley R. Thompson
  • 7. Integrating commodity and exchange rate risk management : implications for external debt management / Stijn Claessens
  • 8. Hedging with commodity-linked bonds under price risk and capital constraints / Richard J. Ball and Robert J. Myers
  • 9. Financial instruments for consumption smoothing by commodity-dependent exporters / Brian Wright and David Newbery
  • 10. Securitizing development finance: the role of partial guarantees and commodity contingency / Ronald Anderson, Christopher Gilbert, and Andrew Powell
  • 11. Conclusion / Theophilos Priovolos and Ronald C. Duncan