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Description of Financial Theory and Corporate Policy

This classic textbook in the field, now completely revised and updated, provides a bridge between theory and practice. Appropriate for the second course in Finance for MBA students and the first course in Finance for doctoral students, the text prepares students for the complex world of modern financial scholarship and practice. It presents a unified treatment of finance combining theory, empirical evidence and applications.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780321223531

Pages:

1024 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

20467

Publisher:

Pearson Education (US)

Published:

01/05/2003

Edition:

4th International edition

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Contents of Financial Theory and Corporate Policy

I. FINANCIAL THEORY

1. Introduction to Capital Markets, Consumption and Investment

2. Investment Decisions: The Certainty Case

3. Theory of Choice Under Uncertainty: Utility Theory

4. State-Preference Theory

5. Objects of Choice

6. Market Equilibrium: CAPM and APT

7. Pricing Contingent Claims: Option Price Theory and Evidence

8. Futures Contracts and Markets - Term Structure - Cox, Ingersoll, Ross

9. Multiperiod Aspects of Financial Theory - Real Options - Investment

10. Efficient Capital Markets: Theory

11. Efficient Capital Market: Evidence

12. Information Asymmetry: Agency Cost Theory and Signaling


II. CORPORATE POLICY.
13. The Role of the CFO and Performance Measurement

14. Valuation and Tax Policy

15. Capital Structure

16. Dividend Policy

17. Applied Issues in Corporate Finance

18. External Investment Decisions

19. International Finance: Theory and Evidence

20. Open-Ended Issues for Research