After the cooling off of IPOs since the dot com bubble, Google has rekindled the fire for IPOs. This IPO reader contains new articles exclusive to this reader by leading academics from around the world dealing with quantitative and qualitative analyses of this increasingly popular and important...

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword by Josh Lerner -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Part One European Venture Capital Markets: Recent Developments and Perspectives -- Chapter 1 Venture capital in Europe:...

Intro -- Corporate Governance and Regulatory Impact on Mergers and Acquisitions -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- List of Contributors -- Chapter 1: Understanding Mergers and Acquisitions: Corporate Governance and Regulatory Issues -- 1.1 Corporate...

Front cover -- International Mergers and Acquisitions Activity Since 1990 -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the editors -- List of contributors -- Chapter 1: Understanding mergers and acquisitions: activity since 1990 -- Part One: International M&A Activity and Takeover...

Introducing Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) -- a quantitative approach to assess the performance of hedge funds, funds of hedge funds, and commmodity trading advisors. Steep yourself in this approach with this important new book by Greg Gregoriou and Joe Zhu. "This book steps beyond the...