Introduction / Ronald L. Solberg -- 1. Managing the risks of international lending / Ronald L. Solberg -- 2. analytics of country reports and checklists / Paul Rawkins -- 3. Current-account forecasting / Milan N. Brahmbhatt -- 4. External financing and debt analysis / Gregory B. Fager -- 5. Empirical models of debt-rescheduling with sovereign immunity / Robert B. Avery and Eric O'N. Fisher -- 6. Political-risk analysis for international banks and multinational enterprises / Jeffrey D. Simon -- 7. Systematic risk in international bank lending: theory and estimation / Gary A. Dymski and Ronald L. Solberg -- 8. strategy of sovereign-debt renegotiation / Eric B. Rasmusen -- 9. Loan valuation and the secondary market for developing-country debt / Vincent Dropsy and Ronald L. Solberg -- 10. Managing non-performing sovereign assets / Charles A. Semones and Ronald L. Solberg -- 11. Foreign direct investment: the upstream petroleum industry / Mikkal E. Herberg -- 12. US regulatory supervision of commercial banks with international operations / Edwin H. Clock -- 13. decision-making process: a changing role for country-risk analysis / Lawrence J. Brainard -- 14. Efficient allocation of an international loan portfolio / Brian K. Newton and Ronald L. Solberg.