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Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy: European Edition David Hillier

Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy: European Edition By David Hillier

Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy: European Edition by David Hillier

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Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy

Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy: European Edition Summary

Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy: European Edition by David Hillier

The second European edition of Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy provides comprehensive coverage of financial markets and corporate finance, brought to life by real world examples, cases and insights. Placed in a truly international context, this new and updated edition takes an academic and practical view-point to guide students through the challenges of studying and practicing finance.

Aimed specifically at an international audience, this edition boasts hundreds of references to new and relevant non-US research papers from top finance journals. Whilst retaining the well respected structure of the successful US text, Professor David Hillier has also made a number of additions which include:

  • Fully updated research, data and examples in every chapter.
  • Coverage of the global financial crisis, the impact it made on the financial markets and the lessons being learnt by the finance industry.
  • A stronger emphasis on corporate governance and agency theory.
  • Updates on accounting standards, bankruptcy laws, tax rules and tax systems.

    • About David Hillier

    David Hillier is Professor of Finance at the University of Strathclyde, teaches regularly in development programs for executives and has taught courses for a wide variety of professional clients, including the World Bank and the National Health Service in the UK. It is part of the editorial board of several international journals of finance. University of California at Los Angeles, Ph.D. Yale Mark Grinblatt is Professor of Finance at UCLAs Anderson School, where he currently serves as chair of the Finance area, and where he began his career in 1981. He is also a director on the board of Salomon Swapco, Inc., a consultant to numerous firms, and serves as an associate editor of Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. From 1987 to 1989, Professor Grinblatt was a visiting professor at the Wharton School and while on leave from UCLA in 1989 and 1990, he was a vice-president for Salomon Brothers, Inc., valuing complex derivatives for the fixed income arbitrage trading group in the firm. Professor Grinblatt is a noted teacher at UCLA, having been awarded teacher of the year in 1993 for UCLAs Fully-Employed MBA Program by a vote of the students. This award was based on his teaching of a course designed around early drafts of this textbook. Professor Grinblatts areas of expertise include investments, performance evaluation of fund managers, fixed income markets, corporate finance and derivatives. The Walter W. McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the University of Texas. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a consultant to a number of firms. Professor Titman began his academic career in 1980 at UCLA, where he served as the department chair for the finance group and as the vice chairman of the UCLA management school faculty. He designed executive education programs in corporate financial strategy at UCLA and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, based on material developed in this book.

    Table of Contents

    Part I. Financial Markets and Financial Instruments
    1. Raising Capital
    2. Debt Financing
    3. Equity Financing

    Part II. Valuing Financial Assets
    4. Portfolio Tools
    5. Mean-Variance Analysis and the Capital Asset Pricing Model
    6. Factor Models and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory
    7. Pricing Derivatives
    8. Options

    Part III. Valuing Real Assets
    9. Discounting and Valuation
    10. Investing in Risk-Free Projects
    11. Investing in Risky Projects
    12. Allocating Capital and Corporate Strategy
    13. Corporate Taxes and the Impact of Financing On Real Asset Valuation

    Part IV. Capital Financial Structure
    14. How Taxes Affect Financing Choices
    15. How Taxes Affect Dividends and Share Repurchases
    16. Bankruptcy Costs and Debt Holder-Equity Holder Conflicts
    17. Capital Structure and Corporate Strategy

    Part V. Incentives, Information, and Corporate Control
    18. How Managerial Incentives Affects Financial Decisions
    19. The Information Conveyed by Financial Decisions
    20. Mergers and Acquisitions

    Part VI. Risk Management
    21. Risk Management and Corporate Strategy
    22. The Practice of Hedging
    23. Interest Rate Risk Management

    Additional information

    GOR004966804
    9780077129422
    0077129423
    Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy: European Edition by David Hillier
    David Hillier
    Used - Very Good
    Paperback
    McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
    20111116
    936
    N/A
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    This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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