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In the 11 articles in this first of two parts, top scholars summarize and analyze recent scholarship in corporate finance. Covering subjects from corporate taxes to behavioral corporate finance and econometric issues, their articles reveal how specializations resonate with each other and indicate likely directions for future research. By including both established and emerging topics, Volume 2 will have the same long shelf life and high citations that characterize Volume 1 (2003).
- Presents coherent summaries of major finance fields, marking important advances and revisions
- Describes the best corporate finance research created about the 2008 financial crises
- Exposes readers to a wide range of subjects described and analyzed by the best scholars
List of contents
1. Financial Intermediation, the Credit Markets, and Alternative Financial Systems
2. Financial Innovation and Securitization
3. Dynamic Security Design and Corporate Financing
4. Corporate Taxes
5. Executive Compensation and Firm Performance
6. Behavioral Corporate Finance
7. Law and Finance after a Decade of Research
8. Venture Capital and Private Equity
9. Endogeneity and other Econometric Issues in Empirical Corporate Finance
10. Entrepreneurship and Family Firms
11. Financing in Developing Countries
About the author
Milt Harris is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Finance Association. He is past president of the Western Finance Association and the Society for Financial Studies.
Summary
Covering subjects from corporate taxes to behavioral corporate finance and econometric issues, this title includes articles that reveal how specializations resonate with each other and indicate likely directions for future research. It presents coherent summaries of major finance fields, marking important advances and revisions.
Report
"A scholarly compendium of contemporary research in Financial Economics which will be of great value not only for researchers in finance but also for researchers in many other of economics including money and banking, growth and development, international economics, public finance, and macro economics." --Edward C. Prescott, Nobel Laureate, Arizona State University
"This Handbook provides a timely and comprehensive account of the state-of-the-art of Financial Economics, including corporate finance and asset pricing, written by many of the leading names in their respective fields." --Harry M.Markowitz, Nobel Laureate, University of California, San Diego
