Quarterly Review

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BIS Quarterly Review, September 2008

1 September 2008

Full text and statistical tables :

 

 

Text by chapter:

International banking and financial market developments

1. Overview: markets adjust to cyclical downturn
  Full text (PDF, 12 pages, 330 kb)


PDFs also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish

2.

Highlights of international banking and financial market activity

  Full text (PDF, 9 pages, 87 kb)


PDFs also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish

 

Special features

    The inflation risk premium in the term structure of interest rates
by Peter Hördahl
 

 Abstract  (also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish)
 Full text (PDF, 16 pages, 145 kb)

    The development of money markets in Asia
by Mico Loretan and Philip Wooldridge
 

 Abstract  (also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish)
 Full text (PDF, 13 pages, 124 kb)

   Reducing foreign exchange settlement risk
by Robert Lindley
 

 Abstract  (also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish)
 Full text (PDF, 13 pages, 125 kb)
includes boxes: How FX settlement risk arises and How CLS works – a simplified example

    The ABX: how do the markets price subprime mortgage risk?
by Ingo Fender and Martin Scheicher
 

 Abstract  (also available in French, German, Italian, Spanish)
 Full text (PDF, 15 pages, 182 kb)
includes box: ABX pricing mechanics

Recent initiatives

   

Recent initiatives by the Basel-based committees and groups

    Full text (PDF, 10 pages, 89 kb)