Country Risk

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Books

Book recommendations will return in August 2010

Conferences

• Critical Geopolitics 2008
• State of Sovereignty - International Boundary Research Unit

Courses

• Conflicts, Teritories and Identities
• International Politics (Critical Geopolitics)
• Geoeconomics and Competitive Intelligence
• Geopolitical Analysis of International Relations
• Geopolitics, Territory and Security
• Territories, identities and conflict in a changing world order

Databases

• Centre for Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism Research Database

External Links

• Country Data
• Country Risk
• Energy Security
• Geopolitical Analysis
• International Security
• Natural Resource Disputes - The Arctic
• Natural Resource Disputes - Spratly Islands
• World Politics

Quotes

Thought-provoking, geopolitical quotes will return in August 2010

Sources A-Z

A.M. Best

"A.M. Best's Country Risk Methodology"

Bank of England

"Emerging economy spread indices and financial stability"

Bank Int. Settlements

"Interpreting sovereign spreads"

"Basel II, Sovereign Ratings and Transfer Risk - External versus Internal Ratings"

"Common factors in emerging market spreads"

Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition

"What drives financial crises in emerging markets?"

Canadian Underwriter

"Handling Global Political Risk"

La Chaire Finances Internationales

"Fitch, Moody’s and S&P’s Sovereign Ratings and EMBI GlobalSpreads: Lessons from 1993-2006"

COFACE

Country Risk Assessment

Euler Hermes

Country Risk Weekly Bulletin 

Fed (New York)

"One Reason Countries Pay Their Debts: Renegotiation and International Trade"

"Risks in U.S. Bank International Exposures"

"What Moves Sovereign Bond Markets? The Effects of Economic News on U.S. and German Yields"

"Sovereign Credit Ratings"

"Determinants and Impact of Sovereign Credit Ratings"

Fed (San Fransisco)

"Sovereign Debt Crises and Credit to the Private Sector "

HWWA

"Sovereign Credit Ratings, Emerging Market Risk and Financial Market Volatility"

INC.com

"How to Calculate Political Risk"

Institut Universitaire de Hautes Études Internationales

"Estimating Default Probabilities of Emerging Market Sovereigns: A New Look at a Not-So-New Literature"

Inter-American Development Bank

"On Emerging Economy Sovereign Spreads and Ratings"

"Global Factors and Emerging Market Spreads"

International Monetary Fund

"Sovereign Ceilings 'Lite'? the Impact of Sovereign Ratings on Corporate Ratings in Emerging Market Economies"

"Haircuts: Estimating Investor Losses in Sovereign Debt Restructurings, 1998-2005"

"Rating the Raters of Country Creditworthiness"

"Debt Crises and the Development of International Capital Markets"

"Predicting Sovereign Debt Crises"

"Sovereign Debt Defaults and Financing Needs"

"Sovereign Credit Ratings Methodology"

Liberty/NBER

"Understanding Emerging Market Bonds"

ONDD

Country risks summary table

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Country Risk Classifications of the Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits [actuele stand]

Country Risk Classifications of the Participants to the Arrangement on Officially Supported Export Credits [1999-nu]

Political Risk Services

PRS Methodology

Rabobank Group

Nieuwe internationale studies [Free country risk reports]

Salomon Brothers

"The Risks of Sovereign Lending: Lessons from History"

Universidade de São Paulo

Macroeconomics and Sovereign Risk Ratings

University Western Australia

"Country risk ratings: An international comparison"

World Bank

"Shadow sovereign ratings for unrated developing countries"