ABSTRACT

Country-Risk Analysis is a comprehensive, practical guide to the management of international risk and cross-border lending. The last fifteen years of international commercial bank lending have witnessed a classical boom-and-bust cycle. Yet it is only recently that a formalized approach to country risk assessment has been implemented in the major international banks.

Ron Solberg's volume provides a state-of-the-art review of the country risk techniques that have evolved in the context of dramatic changes in developing countries' debt service capacity and in international lending itself. It deals comprehensively with sovereign credit decision making, portfolio management, lending behaviour and financial innovations.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|28 pages

Current-account forecasting

chapter 7|28 pages

Systematic risk in international bank lending

Gary Dymski and Ronald L.Solberg

chapter 11|21 pages

Foreign direct investment

Mikkal E.Herberg

chapter 13|10 pages

The decision-making process

Lawrence J.Brainard