Finance

"Designed for the nonspecialist, the Encyclopedia of Business and Finance is a 2-vol. complete reference covering five general areas: finance and banking; accounting; marketing; management; and information systems. Drawing on practical professional expertise as well as that of noted scholars, the contributors include executives, government administrators and scholars from leading business programs from around the United States."

Deposit insurance schemes. -Gramm-Leach-Bailey Act: creating a new bank for a new millennium. -Comparative analysis of zero-coupon and coupon-pre-funded bonds.- Intertemporal risk and currency risk.- Credit derivatives.- international parity conditions and market risk.- Treasury inflation-indexed securities.- Asset pricing models.- Conditional asset pricing.- Conditional performance evaluation.- Working capital and cash flow.- Evaluating fund performance within the stochastic discount factor framework.- Duration analysis and its applications.- Loan contract terms.- Chinese a and b shares.- Decimal trading in the U.S. stock markets.- The 1997 nasdaq trading rules.- Reincorporation.- Men variance portfolio allocation.- Online trading.- A note on the relationship amount the portfolio performance indices under rank transformation.- Corporate failure.- Review of REIT and MBS.- Experimental economics and the theory of finance.- Merger and acquisition.- Multi-stage compound real options and case study.- Market efficiency hypothesis.- The microstructure/micro-finance approach to exchange rates.- arbitrage and market frictions.- fundamental tradeoffs associated with the publicly trade corporation.- The Mexican peso crisis.- Portfolio performance evaluation.- Call auction trading.- Market liquidity.- Market makers.- Structure of securities.- Accounting scandals and implications for directors: lessons from enron.- Agent-based models of financial markets.- The Asian bond market.- Cross-border mergers and acquisitions.- Jump diffusion model.- Networks, nodes, and priority rules.- The momentum trading strategy.- Equilibrium credit rationing and monetary non-neutrality in a small open economy.- Policy coordination between wages and exchange rates in Singapore.- The le chatelier principle of the capital market equilibrium.- MBS valuation and prepayments.- The impact of IMF bailouts in international debt crises

"The book is organized into seven parts, the first of which introduces the issues, explains its organization, and briefly summarizes the contributions made by the authors in each of the articles. Part II covers the topics pertaining to financing new industries and the returns and risk to being an entrepreneur. Part III deals with entrepreneurial capital structure. Part IV discusses business planning, funding and funding gaps in entrepreneurial finance with a focus on credit markets. Part V provides analyses of the main alternative sources of entrepreneurial finance. Part VI considers issues in public policy towards entrepreneurial finance. Part VII considers international differences in entrepreneurial finance, including analyses of entrepreneurial finance in weak institutional environments as well as microfinance."

Financial Institutions & Governance -- Financial Markets in Action -- Information, Knowledge & Financial Risks -- Crises in Finance -- Varieties of Finance -- The Historical Sociology of Finance