By Thomas E. Copeland
Descripción: This classic textbook in the field, now completely revised and updated, provides a bridge between theory and practice. Appropriate for the second course in Finance for MBA students and the first course in Finance for doctoral students, the text prepares students for the complex world of modern financial scholarship and practice. It presents a unified treatment of finance combining theory, empirical evidence and applications.
Contenido: 1. Introduction: Captial Markets, Consumption, and Investment
2. Investment Decisions: The Certainty Case
3. Theory of Choice Under Uncertainty: Utility Theory
4. State Preference Theory
5. Objects of Choice
6. Market Equilibrium: CAPM and APT
7. Pricing Contingent Claims: Option Price Theory and Evidence
8. Futures Contracts and Markets - Term Structure - Cox, Ingersoll, Ross
9. Multiperiod Capital Budgeting under Uncertainty: Real Options Analysis
10. Efficient Captial Markets: Theory
11. Efficient Captial Markets: Evidence
12. Information Asymmetry and Agency Theory
13. Valuation and Tax Policy
14. Capital Structure and the Cost of Capital: Theory and Evidence
15. Dividend Policy: Theory and Empirical Evidence
16. Applied Issues in Corporate Finance
17. Acquisitions, Divestitures, Restructuring, and Corporate Governance
18. International Financial Management
Appendix: Discounting
Appendix: Matrix Algebra
Appendix: An Introduction to Multiple Regression
Appendix: Calculus and Optimization
Index
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