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Handbook of Empirical Corporate Finance SET
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Handbook of Empirical Corporate Finance SET

by Bjørn Espen Eckbo
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
43h 42m
English
North Holland
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Preface: Empirical Corporate Finance

Judging by the sheer number of papers reviewed in this Handbook, the empirical analysis of firms’ financing and investment decisions—empirical corporate finance—has become a dominant field in financial economics. The growing interest in everything “corporate” is fueled by a healthy combination of fundamental theoretical developments and recent widespread access to large transactional data bases. A less scientific—but nevertheless important—source of inspiration is a growing awareness of the important social implications of corporate behavior and governance. This Handbook takes stock of the main empirical findings to date across the entire spectrum of corporate finance issues, ranging from econometric methodology, ...

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ISBN: 9780444532657