Funds of Funds (FoF) are particular investment funds that invest resources in some mutual funds. This type of funds offers the possibility to achieve an higher diversification that an investor can’t realize using other instruments. One of the main differences among FoFs available is the strategy adopted by the manager to select the investment funds to include in the portfolio and the number of ...

Hedge funds attempting to take advantage of market-wide liquidity shocks are not limited by opaqueness-caused capital constraints, because banks optimally supply them with backup credit lines. During such shocks, government-protected bank deposits receive inflows that lower a bank’s opportunity cost of lending. The inflows also provide a private signal that helps the bank estimate the timing an...

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the interbank market on the business cycle. To do that, we built a DSGE model with heterogeneous households and banks. Net lender banks can allocate their resources between interbank lending and risk free government bonds. This portfolio choice is affected by an exogenous counterpart risk shock on the interbank market. An increase of the counterp...

We use a model of mean-shifting investment technologies to study the relationship between market structure, risk taking and social welfare in lending markets. Introduction of loan market competition is shown to reduce lending rates and to generate higher investments without increasing the equilibrium bankruptcy risk of borrowers. Hence, there need not be a tradeo€ between lending market competi...

This paper examines the design of social investment funds (SIFs) and explores the ways they affect agents’ incentives to propose, select, and implement good projects. Compared with other forms of decentralized service provision, SIFs possess features of administratively delegated authority and deep political devolution. Where existing political institutions fail to deliver assistance to vulnera...

Investment funds in China started in 1991. After 20 years of development, the mutual fund industry is now offering a rich product line for investors. At present, individual investors hold about 90% of the mutual fund with more than 90,000,000 fund accounts. Mutual fund purchasing has become the preferred way of managing money for urban residents in China. This paper study on risk assessment met...

The Islamic Banks can do the business without being involved in forward swaps of exchange dealings. When we move to borrowing and lending activities, matters become different. Any extra repayment rather than original principle any lending-borrowing relation is considered be usury. Usury Islam isconsidered one big sins. In Islam, there no difference between usury as an excessive interest or so-c...