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Practical financial economics : a new science / edited by Austin Murphy.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Corporations--Finance.
- Corporations.
- Risk.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The recent stock market bubble of the late 1990s and subsequent crash has made people more aware of the need to conduct practical financial analysis. Practical financial economics, i.e., the application of financial theory to practical financial analysis, is explained here with respect to a number of different topics, with a focus on valuation. Largely normative (instead of being theoretical, empirical, or descriptive, as most academic work seems to be), yet solidly grounded in theory (instead of being ad hoc, as much purely practitioner work seems to be), this book represents a collection of
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword: Enronomics-Desperately Seeking Toto; Preface; Introduction; 1 The Outlook for Equity Values: Stocks May Underperform Bonds in the Twenty-First Century; 2 How Uncertain Is Firm Valuation?; 3 Valuation: A Case Study of Scientifically Valuing Enron Using the Historical Financial Statements; 4 Was the Writing on the Wall for Enron? The Importance of Strategy Analysis to Financial Analysts; 5 Financial Analysts and Enron: Asleep at the Wheel?; 6 Prepaid Forward and Leasing Contracts: A Critical Analysis of a Potentially Useful Form of Financing Employed by Enron
- 7 A Modern Financial Analysis of the Titanic Disaster: A Timeless Case Study of Excessive Risk-Taking8 A Possible Solution to Excessive Risk-Taking: Using Stock Ownership to Maximize Customer Loyalty; 9 A Critique of the Monday Effect: Beware of Mechanical Trading Rules Derived from Empirical Research in Financial Economics; 10 A Financial Analysis of the Economic Effects Associated with Having to Reverse Current-Account Deficits; Index; About the Editor and Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400699986
- 9786610926725
- 9781280926723
- 1280926724
- 9780313053634
- 0313053634
- OCLC:
- 61164322
- Publisher Number:
- 10.5040/9798400699986
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