Handbook of Corporate Finance —— Empirical Corporate Finance

----- 公司财务手册：实证公司财务

ISBN: 9780444508980 出版年：2007 页码：559 North Holland_RM

Judging by the sheer number of papers reviewed in this Handbook, the empirical analysis of firms financing and investment decisions mpirical corporate finance as become a dominant field in financial economics. The growing interest in everything orporate聰 is fueled by a healthy combination of fundamental theoretical developments and recent widespread access to large transactional data bases. A less scientific ut nevertheless important ource 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 an unprecedented spectrum of corporate finance issues, ranging from econometric methodology, to raising capital and capital structure choice, and to managerial incentives and corporate investment behavior. The surveys are written by leading empirical researchers that remain active in their respective areas of interest. With few exceptions, the writing style makes the chapters accessible to industry practitioners. For doctoral students and seasoned academics, the surveys offer dense roadmaps into the empirical research landscape and provide suggestions for future work.*The Handbooks in Finance series offers a broad group of outstanding volumes in various areas of finance*Each individual volume in the series should present an accurate self-contained survey of a sub-field of finance*The series is international in scope with contributions from field leaders the world over