Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting.

News Professor Cheng-Few Lee ranks #1 based on his publications in the 26 core finance journals, and #163 based on publications in the 7 leading finance journals (Source: Most Prolific Authors in the Finance Literature: 1959-2008 by Jean L Heck and Philip L Cooley (Saint Joseph's University and Trinity University). Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting. The publication is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in finance and accounting, as well as applications of quantitative methods to problems in financial management, financial accounting, and business management. The objective is to promote interaction between academic research in finance and accounting and applied research in the financial community and accounting profession. The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of important topics, including corporate finance and debt management, earnings management, options and futures, equity market, and portfolio diversification. These topics are very useful for both academicians and practitioners in the area of finance. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Collateral Constraints, Debt Management, and Investment Incentives (127 KB). Contents: Collateral Constraints, Debt Management, and Investment Incentives (E Agliardi & R Andergassen); A Concave Quadratic Programming Marketing Strategy Model with Product Life Cycles (P Y Kim et al.); Evaluating the Robustness of Market Anomaly Evidence (W D Brown, Jr et al.); Why is the Value Relevance of Earnings Lower for High-Tech Firms? (B B Lee et al.); Thirty Years of Canadian Evidence on Stock Splits, Reverse Stock Splits, and Stock Dividends (V Jog & P C Zhu); Intraday Volume - Volatility Relation of the DOW: A Behavioral Interpretation (A F Darrat et