Books in the Handbooks in Finance series

Intended for finance and economics professors and lecturers, professional researchers, and graduate students, this volume presents research focusing on heavy tailed distributions in finance. It covers methodological issues, as well as the applications of the stable and other non-Gaussian models in finance and risk management.

Presents review articles on six major topics that are connected by information-theoretic tools and characterized by valuable perspectives and important questions for future research. This volume covers a wide range of issues pertaining to the designs of securities, institutions, trading mechanisms and markets, industry structure, and regulation.

Features empirical findings across a spectrum of corporate finance issues. This book offers roadmaps into the empirical research landscape and provide suggestions for further work. It includes chapters summarizing research advances and other topics in the classical issues of capital structure choice, corporate investment behavior, and firm value.

Offers empirical research and investigation of pure theories of investment in the sports and lotto markets. With overviews of scholarship on the industry side of racetrack and other betting markets to betting exchanges and market efficiencies, this work considers a variety of sports in countries around the world.

Focuses on the equity risk premium puzzle, a term coined by Mehra and Prescott in 1985 which encompasses a number of empirical regularities in the prices of capital assets that are at odds with the predictions of standard economic theory.

Features applied financial econometrics subjects with papers that survey important research. This title presents a broad survey of the research.