Volume 1A covers corporate finance: how businesses allocate capital - the capital budgeting decision - and how they obtain capital - the financing decision. Though managers play no independent role in the work of Miller and Modigliani, major contributions in finance since then have shown that managers maximize their own objectives. To understand the firm's decisions, it is therefore necessary to understand the forces that lead managers to maximize the wealth of shareholders.
This handbook brings together both background material and new methodological and applied results that are extremely important to the current and future frontiers in empirical economics and finance.
Handbook of Empirical Economics and Finance explores the latest developments in the analysis and modeling of economic and financial data.
Judging by the sheer number of papers reviewed in this Handbook, the empirical analysis of firms’ financing and investment decisions—empirical corporate finance—has become a dominant field in financial economics.
Handbook of the Economics of Finance: Corporate financei. Vol. 1A
Handbook of the Economics of Finance
The Handbook of the Economics of Corporate Governance, Volume One, covers all issues important to economists.
This handbook in two parts covers key topics of the theory of financial decision making. Some of the papers discuss real applications or case studies as well.
Economists examine the genesis of technological change and the ways we commercialize and diffuse it.
Similarly, being able to adopt the tax-favored non-corporate form may lessen the capital allocation distortions associated with the corporate tax. It is a question to be resolved empirically how the choice of organizational form ...
This collection of original articles—8 years in the making—shines a bright light on recent advances in financial econometrics.