Books on Economics, Business and Management - Financial Economics Books

Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions, Volume 1 - book by Cooper, C.;Gregory, A.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction (C. Cooper, A. Gregory). The post merger performance puzzle (A. Agrawal, J.F. Jaffe). The influence of cultural compatibility within cross-border acquisitions: a review (R. Schoenberg). Integrating mergers and acquisitions: an international reseearch r... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Pacific Basin Financial Markets, Volume 6 - book by Fetherston, T.A.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors. Overview (T.A. Fetherston). Market Microstructure. Price parities of stocks listed on both the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange and Singapore's Clob International (D.K. Ding). Market structure and stock price behaviour in the Korean stock market (K... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Pacific Basin Financial Markets, Volume 5 - book by Bos, T.;Fetherston, T.A.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Overview (T. Bos, T.A. Fetherston). Instututional Arrangements and Market Microstructure. Financial innovation in Taiwan: the engineering of treasury bond margin contracts (E.H. Chow, Pu Liu). Financial fragility and recent developments in the Japanese safety net (... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Futures and Options Research, Volume 10 - book by Ritchken, P.;Boyle, P.;Pennacchi, G.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editorial statement. Abstracts. Discrete Parisian and delayed barrier options: a general numerical approach (K.R. Vetzal, P.S. Forsyth). The pricing of double barrier options and their variations (A. Li). Numeraire invariance, change of measure, and pricing by arbi... view more info and the price of this book.

Privatization: Financial Perspectives - book by Hirschey, M.;John, K.;Makhija, A.K.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors. Acknowledgment. The performance of privatization stocks in emerging markets: the role of political risk (F.E. Huibers, E. Perotti). On partial sales and underpricing in privatization (Seung-doo Choi). Role of ownership in Chinese privatization... view more info and the price of this book.

Contemporary Accounting Research - book by Kothari, S.P.;Lys, T.Z.;Skinner, D.J.;Watts, R.L.;Zimmerman, J.L.

DESCRIPTION: To commemorate the millennium, the Journal of Accounting and Economics invited nine author-teams to write critical review papers on the major research areas in accounting. In addition, discussants were asked to write reviews of the critiques. The critiques and their reviews were prese... view more info and the price of this book.

Research in Finance, Volume 17 - book by Chen, A.H.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors. Dividend smoothing and stock valuation: an appraisal of variance bounds tests (Yoon Dokko). Divided omissions and forecasts of future earnings: some positive evidence on information content of dividends (M. Bajaj). An empirical analysis of the... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Financial Economics, Volume 3 - book by Hirschey, M.;Marr, W.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Top executive compensation under alternate ownership and governance structures (J.S. Ang et al.). The influence of equity ownership structure on corporate risk-taking and financial policy (V.N. Awasthi et al.). The relation between executive compensation policy and... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Financial Planning and Forecasting, Volume 8 - book by Lee, Cheng-Few

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors. The change in earnings response coefficient around dividend omissions (K.C. Chan). An examination of proxies of information asymmetry (R.J. Best et al.). An empirical test of a stochastic cash flow theory of evaluating credit (J.Callaghan, A. ... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Financial Planning and Forecasting, Volume 7 - book by Lee, Cheng-Few

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: E/P ratio anomaly and time-variation in expected stock returns: Finnish evidence (J.-P. Kallunki). Valuing investments that reduce time-to-market in the semiconductor industry (Wenyih Lee et al.). Economic determinants of ROE adjustments in the electric utility ind... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, Volume 5 - book by Lee, Cheng-Few

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: A note on the redundancy of debt covenants for enforcing target debt-equity ratios (M.A. Siddiqi). Inter-company dynamics in the financial ratio adjustment (K. Shih-Jen Ho, Cheng F. Lee and Chunchi Wu). Application of confirmatory factor analysis to the study of co... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting, Volume 6 - book by Lee, Cheng-Few

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors. On the pitfall of using intuitive judgement in audit scheduling (Shui F. Lam, K. Hung Chan and Shijun Cheng). Potential consequences of informal, simplifying restrictions (C. Harter, R. Kelley Pace). Nonparametric statistical tests for the ran... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Pacific Basin Financial Markets, Volume 3 - book by Bos, T.;Fetherstone, T.A.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Outlook and overview (T. Bos, T.A. Fetherston). Time-varying volatility estimates in option pricing: can superior estimates be obtained? (T.J. Brailsford, B.R. Oliver). Enhancing portfolio performance: a Bayesian approach to incorporating the CAPM into conditional ... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Volume 4 - book by Lee, Cheng-Few

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Indexed commodity futures and the risk and return of institutional portfolios (K.G. Becker, J.E. Finnerty). Asymmetric information, insider trading and the small firm size effect: an empirical investigation (S. Ilfakhani, T. Zaher). The information content in forwa... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Pacific Basin Business, Economics and Finance, Volume 3 - book by Lee, Cheng-Few

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: The changing trade structure in Pacific Basin countries: retrospect and prospect (P.C.Y. Chow, M.H. Kellman). Accounting standard-setting process and financial reporting in south-east Asian countries: an evaluation and recommendations (B. Jaggi, B. Banerjee). Big b... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Pacific Basin Financial Markets, Volume 4 - book by Bos, T.;Fetherstone, T.A.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Prologue and overview. Market Integration. Trading mechanisms, liquidity risk and international equity market integration (Kyung-Won Kim, J.E. Finnerty). An examination into market segmentation in the Chinese Stock Market (Yea-Mow Chen, Yuli Su). Stock price fluctu... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Working Capital Management, Volume 3 - book by Kim, Yong H.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Preface (Yong H. Kim). Part I: Valuation Framework and Liquidity. The value of short-term cash flow forecasting systems (T.W. Miller, B.K. Stone). Liquidity and the financing policy of the firm: an empirical test (E.O. Lyn, G.J. Papaioannou). Part II: Trade Credit:... view more info and the price of this book.

Research in Finance, Volume 16 - book by Chen, A.H.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors. Conditional measures of performance and persistence for pension funds (J.A. Christopherson, W.E. Ferson and D.A. Glassman). Creating and destroying value: spin-offs of prior acquisitions (J.W. Allen et al.). Solving an empirical puzzle in the ... view more info and the price of this book.

Recent Issues in Corporate Finance and Investments - book by Hirschey, M.;John, K.;Makhija, A.K.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: List of contributors. Antitakeover provisions and the CEO performance-for-pay relationship (J.C. Alexander et al.). Equity underwriting by commercial banks prior to glass-steagall: a further examination of justification for the act (J.S. Ang, T.L. Richardson). The ... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Futures and Options Research, Volume 9 - book by Ritchken, P.;Boyle, P.P.;Pennacchi, G.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: An option-based approach to analyzing financial contracts with multiple indenture provisions (D.Rich, R. Leipus). Using stock price as numeraire in option pricing models with non-constant volatility (A. Li). The skewness premium: option pricing under asymmetric pro... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Working Capital Management, Volume 4 - book by Kim, Yong H.

DESCRIPTION: Volume 4 in this research series contains nine papers. Following the tradition of the earlier volumes, it is similar in style to the first three volumes and illustrates ongoing research thrusts on a variety of financial economics issues that are germane to working capital management. Th... view more info and the price of this book.

Issues in International Corporate Control and Governance - book by Nail, L.A.

DESCRIPTION: The ever-changing nature of the business world and government policies makes continuing research on the capital markets model vital to our complete and current understanding of how corporate governance affects business and economies throughout the world. There is an abundance of empiric... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Financial Economics, Volume 6 - book by Hirschey, M.;John, K.;Makhija, A.K.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: On the existence of sub-standard security markets: the IPOs of blinder-robinson (J.S. Ang, S.L. Brown). Is managerial equity ownership an alternative governance mechanism for Japanese firms? (S.P. Ferris, K.A. Kim, P. Kitsabunnarat). The influence of managerial rep... view more info and the price of this book.

Research in Finance, Volume 18 - book by Chen, A.

DESCRIPTION: This volume consists of original research articles examining timely issues in financial services, asset pricing, and hedging. The articles in the first part of the volume deal with methods for assessing the safety and soundness of banks, rationales for and economic consequences of bank ... view more info and the price of this book.

European Monetary Union and Capital Markets - book by Choi, J.;Wrase, J.

DESCRIPTION: To form a more perfect economic union and to establish a single market financially, economically and politically, 11 European countries founded a common currency and a European Central Bank, and created a new monetary unit, the euro, on 1st January, 1999. On that date, the old national... view more info and the price of this book.

International Financial Systems and Stock Volatility: Issues and Remedies - book by Sabri, N.R.

DESCRIPTION: At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world financial markets, and institutions have new features, and are working in different environments and conditions. These are increasing the role of the financial sector in the world economy, integration of the financial markets and ... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Volume 9 - book by Lee, Cheng-Few

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Endogenous growth and stock returns volatility in the long run (C. Faugére, H. Shawky). A note on the Markowitz risk minimization and the Sharpe angle maximization models (C.W. Yang, K. Hung and F.A. Yang). Optimal hedge ratios and temporal aggregation of co... view more info and the price of this book.

Innovations in Investments and Corporate Finance - book by Hirschey, M.;John, K.;Makhija, A.K.

DESCRIPTION: This volume focuses on recent pricing puzzles in investments. The valuation of Internet companies, effects of firm size in takeover studies, and long-run performance of mergers in the telecommunications industry are all seen as riddles for the Efficient Markets Hypothesis. Explanation... view more info and the price of this book.

Research in Finance, Volume 19 - book by Chen, A.H.

DESCRIPTION: Since its first appearance in 1979, Research in Finance has been publishing papers that cover important and interesting issues in finance and economics. The topics found in the series span a wide range; previous volumes have included papers on corporate financial management policy, as... view more info and the price of this book.

Advances in Quantitive Analysis of Finance and Accounting - book by Lee, C-.F.

DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this paper is to incorporate both skewness and kurtosis explicitly through extending Zhang (1994) to provide bounds for the prices of and expected payoffs for options, given the first two moments of skewness and kurtosis. The rest of this paper is organized as follows. Se... view more info and the price of this book.

Handbook of Corporate Finance, Volume 1 - book by Eckbo, E.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part A: Econometric Issues and Methodological Trends. 1. Econometrics of Event Studies (K. Warner). 2. Self-Selection Models in Corporate Finance (L. Prabhala). 3. Auctions in Corporate Finance (Hansen). 4. Behavioral Corporate Finance (Baker, Ruback, Wurgler). P... view more info and the price of this book.