Books in the Handbooks in Finance series

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

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.

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.