Equity Markets, Valuation, and Analysis

H. Kent Baker, CFA, CMA is University Professor of Finance at the Kogod School of Business, American University. He is an award-winning author who has written or edited 32 books including several textbooks. Professor Baker has also published 179 peer-reviewed journal articles plus more than 150 other articles, monographs, book chapters, and proceedings as well as 350 book reviews and abstracts. He is the editor/co-editor of the Financial Markets and Investments Series (Oxford University Press) and The Savvy Investors Series (Emerald Publishing). Greg Filbeck, CFA, FRM, CAIA, CIPM, PRM holds the Samuel P. Black III Professor of Finance and Risk Management at Penn State Behrend and serves as Director of the Black School of Business. Before joining the faculty at Penn State Erie in 2006, he served as Senior Vice President of Kaplan Schweser from 1999 to 2006 where he was in charge of all content and curriculum. He also held academic appointments at Miami University (Ohio) and the University of Toledo, where he also served as the Associate Director of the Center for Family Business. He is the co-editor of the Financial Markets and Investments Series (Oxford University Press). Professor Filbeck has authored or edited 10 books and published more than 95 refereed academic journal articles appearing in the Financial Analysts Journal, Financial Review, and Journal of Business, Finance, and Accounting among others. Halil Kiymaz, CFA is Bank of America Professor of Finance at the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College. Professor Kiymaz maintains an extensive research agenda focusing on international mergers and acquisitions, emerging capital markets, linkages among capital markets of developing economies, IPOs, and financial management of multinationals. Professor Kiymaz has authored or edited five books and has published more than 80 articles in scholarly and practitioner journals. His research has appeared in such outlets as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Review, Global Finance Journal, Journal of Applied Finance, Journal of Economics and Finance, Review of Financial Economics, and Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics.