Advances in Financial Economics: v.3
JAI Press Inc.
Published on 16. September 1997
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-7623-0299-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume discusses a variety of topics in the field of financial economics. It covers issues such as the relation between executive compensation policy and investment expenditures, the direct costs of bankruptcy, and institutional ownership and acquiring firm performance.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
572 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7623-0299-4 (9780762302994)
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Persons
Editor
Department of Finance, Washington State University, USA
School of Business, University of Kansas, USA
Content
Top executive compensation under alternate ownership and governance structures, James S. Ang, Shmuel Hauser and Beni Lauterbach; the influence of equity ownership structure on corporate risk-taking and financial policy, Vidya N. Awasthi, Stephen P. Ferris and Atulya Sarin; the relation between executive compensation policy and investment expenditures, David W. Blackwell, Kathleen A. Farrell and Andreas Wunsch; a theory of the value of active investment management and its implications for closed-end funds and investment management contracts, Don M. Chance; a neutral network approach to forecasting volatile international equity markets, Kenneth O. Cogger, Paul D. Koch and Diane M. Lander; direct costs of bankruptcy - evidence from filings of liquidations and reorganizations by small firms, 1981-1991, Stephen P. Ferris, Narayanan Jayaraman and Anil K. Makhija; institutional ownership and acquiring firm performance, Chuan-Yang Hwang, Robert Nachtmann and Ahron Rosenfeld; investment opportunities, firm characteristics and the debt-equity choice, Yong-Cheol Kim, M. Wayne Marr and Stuart Rosenstein; wealth sharing in domestic interfirm licensing agreements, J. Michael Pinegar and R. Ravichandran.