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. -Pre-funded Coupon and Zero-Coupon Bonds: Cost of Capital Analysis.- Intertemporal risk and currency risk.- Credit derivatives.- Foreign Exchange Risk Premium and Policy Uncertainty.- Treasury inflation-protected 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 concepts, analysis and applications.- Loan contract terms.- Chinese a and b shares.- Decimal trading in the U.S. stock markets.- Reincorporation.- Men variance portfolio allocation.- Online trading.- A Critical Evaluation of the Portfolio Performance Indices Under Rank Transformation.- Corporate Failure: Definitions, Methods, and Failure Prediction Models.- Main Bank Relationships, Debt Structure, and Innovation in Japan. - Term Structure: Interest Rate Models. - Review of REIT and MBS. - Experimental Economics and the Theory of Finance. - Merger and Acquisition: Definitions, Motives, and Market Responses. - Multistage Compound Real Options: Theory and Application. - Market Efficiency Hypothesis. - The Microstructure/Micro-Finance Approach to Exchange Rates. - Arbitrage and Market Frictions. - Fundamental Tradeoffs in the Publicly Traded Corporation. - The Mexican Peso Crisis. - Methods for Portfolio Performance Evaluation. - Call Auction Trading. - Market Liquidity. - Market Makers. - Structure of Securities Markets. - 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 Impacts of IMF Bailouts in International Debt Crises. - Corporate Governance: Structure and Consequences. - A Survey Article on International Banking. - Hedge Funds: Overview, Strategies, and Trends. - An Appraisal of Modeling Dimensions for Performance Appraisal of Global Mutual Funds. - Structural Credit Risk Models: Endogenous Versus Exogenous Default. - Arbitrage Opportunity Set and the Role of Corporations. - Equity Premium Puzzle: The Distributional Approach. - Understanding Ginnie Mae Reverse Mortgage H-REMICs: Its Programs and Cashflow Analysis. - An Analysis of Risk Treatment in the Field of Finance. - The Trading Performance of Dynamic Hedging Models: Time Varying Covariance and Volatility Transmission Effects. - Portfolio Insurance Strategies. - Time-Series and Cross-Sectional Tests of Asset Pricing Models. - Unified Model Arbitrage-Free Term Structure of Flow Risks. - A Comparison of Formulas to Compute Implied Standard Deviation. - Securities Transaction Taxes: Literature and Key Issues. - Financial Control and Transfer Pricing. - Alternative Models for Evaluating Convertible Bond: Review and Integration. -...

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"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."

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