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Book SynopsisFinancial Economics has quickly established itself as a strong and growing market. Introduction to Financial Economics by Frank Fabozzi, Ted Neave, and Gaofu Zhou presents an introduction to basic financial ideas through a strong grounding in microeconomic theory.
Table of ContentsPreface ix
Acknowledgments xv
About the Authors xvii
CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1
PART I FINANCE IN A CERTAINTY WORLD WITH A PERFECT CAPITAL MARKET 13
CHAPTER 2 Consumer Financial Decisions 15
CHAPTER 3 Creating Wealth by Investing in Productive Opportunities 31
CHAPTER 4 How Investors Value Firms 50
CHAPTER 5 Firm Financing Decisions in a Perfect Capital Market 78
CHAPTER 6 Firm Investment Decisions 102
PART II FINANCIAL SYSTEM 119
CHAPTER 7 Financial Systems, Governance, and Organization 121
CHAPTER 8 Market, Intermediary, and Internal Governance 151
PART III TOOLS FOR COPING WITH RISK 177
CHAPTER 9 The Microeconomic Foundations of Financial Economics 179
CHAPTER 10 Contingent Claims and Contingency Strategies 199
CHAPTER 11 Risk and Risk Management 216
CHAPTER 12 On Choosing Risk Measures 234
PART IV SELECTION AND PRICING OF RISKY ASSETS 255
CHAPTER 13 Mean-Variance Portfolio Choice 257
CHAPTER 14 Capital Asset Pricing Model 287
CHAPTER 15 The APTand Factor Models 317
CHAPTER 16 General Principles of Asset Pricing 339
CHAPTER 17 Pricing Corporate Securities 366
PART V DERIVATIVE INSTRUMENTS 383
CHAPTER 18 Pricing Derivatives by Arbitrage: Linear Payoff Derivatives 385
CHAPTER 19 Pricing Derivatives by Arbitrage: Nonlinear Payoff Derivatives 414
PART VI CAPITAL MARKET IMPERFECTIONS AND THE LIMITS TO ARBITRAGE 449
CHAPTER 20 Capital Market Imperfections and Financial Decision Criteria 451
CHAPTER 21 Impediments to Arbitrage 479
PART VII CAPITAL STRUCTURE DECISIONS IN IMPERFECT CAPITAL MARKETS 499
CHAPTER 22 When Capital Structure Decisions Matter 501
CHAPTER 23 Financing Decisions in Practice 522
CHAPTER 24 Financial Contracting and Deal Terms 545
PART VIII INCORPORATING RISK IN CAPITAL BUDGETING DECISIONS 577
CHAPTER 25 Capital Expenditure Plans in a Risky World 579
CHAPTER 26 Evaluating Project Risk in Capital Budgeting 607
SUBJECT INDEX 639
AUTHOR INDEX 650
FINANCE APPENDICES WEB-APPENDIX A Deal Terms 653
WEB-APPENDIX B Corporate Debt Funding Instruments 658
WEB-APPENDIX C Investment Bankers and the Issuance of Securities 665
WEB-APPENDIX D Credit Risk 668
WEB-APPENDIX E Financial Statements 677
WEB-APPENDIX F Financial Ratio Analysis 682
WEB-APPENDIX G Estimating Cash Flows of Capital Budgeting Projects 692
WEB-APPENDIX H Merger and Acquisition Strategies 697
WEB-APPENDIX I Conglomerates as a Means of Overcoming Capital Market Imperfections 701
WEB-APPENDIX J Lease Financing 705
MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL APPENDICES
WEB-APPENDIX K Taylor Series Approximation 716
WEB-APPENDIX L Some Elementary Concepts Involving Probability 717
WEB-APPENDIX M Continuous Probability Distributions 722
WEB-APPENDIX N Continuous Interest Rates 730
WEB-APPENDIX O Fundamentals of Matrix Algebra 733
WEB-APPENDIX P Principal Component Analysis in Finance 745
SUBJECT INDEX (WEB-APPENDIX A TO P) 751
AUTHOR INDEX (WEB-APPENDIX A TO P) 754
* Web-Appendix A to P are online only—please go to www.wiley.com/college/fabozzi
