This book draws readers’ attention to the financial aspects of daily life at a corporation by combining a robust mathematical setting and the explanation and derivation of the most popular models of the firm. Intended for third-year undergraduate students of business finance, quantitative...

This book focuses on microeconomic foundations of capital structure theory. It combines theoretical results with a large number of examples, exercises and applications. The book examines fundamental ideas in capital structure management, some of which are still not very well understood in the...

This monograph is devoted to the modern theory of capital cost and capital structure and its application to the real economy. In particular, it presents a possible explanation to the causes of global financial crisis. The authors of the book modify the theory of Nobel Prize winners Modigliani...

Part I: Econometrics of Financial Markets -- Information Asymmetry, Liquidity and the Dynamic Volume-Return Relation in Panel Data Analysis -- Density forecasts of emerging markets’ exchange rates using Monte Carlo simulation with regime switching -- Determination of the own funds requirements...

This book focuses on extending the models and theories (from a mathematical/statistical point of view) which were introduced in the first volume to a more technical level. Where volume I provided an introduction to the mathematics of bubbles and contagion, volume II digs far more deeply and...

1. Introduction: Corporate Social Responsibility and Japanese Corporations -- 2. Corporate Social Responsibility Awareness and Practices of Japanese Corporations -- 3. Responsible Investment and Institutional Investors -- 4. Corporate Social Performance and Corporate Financial Performance -- 5....

Intangible assets such as patents have become important competitive factors and key elements in the value structure of technology-intensive companies. While patents represent the technological capital to a large extent, they are not adequately represented in the field of corporate financing....

Old and New Financial Paradigms -- Mergers and Acquisitions -- Corporate Communication -- New Forms of Funding in Strategic Corporate Finance: Entrepreneurial Finance, Venture Capital, Private Equity and Hedge Funds -- The Importance of CSR Capital for Sustainable Strategic Corporate Finance --...

Wer in den sich verändernden Märkten erfolgreich bleiben will, muss finanzstrategisch denken. In letzter Zeit verhalten sich Manager und Investoren immer häufiger scheinbar gegen die Gesetze des Kapitalmarktes. Parallel dazu finden Unternehmen neue Wege, den Finanzmarkt zu ihren Gunsten zu...