Books in the Research in Finance series

Contributions assess the benefits to local banks around the Bakken Formation, the effect of corporate governance on valuation in India, and the undermining of real estate investment because of regulatory uncertainties. We also have studies of dividend policy and systemic risk in emerging markets, plus improvements in quantitative methods.

Examining various issues in international finance and financial institutions, this collection of eleven papers represent the research on important topics in finance. The contributions include analyses of issues relating to asset prices, the behaviour of stock returns, and capital-raising activities.

Contains topics that include the design of a country's financial safety nets, the effective policies of acquiring failed banks in reducing moral hazard problems, the voluntary disclosure of real options by corporate managers, and the interrelationship between the housing and general economic activities.

Contains contributions on a range of important issues in research in finance and economics. This volume includes topics such as the IPO underwriting spreads, the moral hazard problems in bank regulation as well as in the cost of deposit insurance, the loan yield spreads, and the aggregate bank performance at the state-level.

Offers insights into economic systems as packages containing multiple real options where the rational exercise of these options then shapes the outcomes from the system. This title also includes chapters that explore the use of commodities like oil as a means of improving the diversification of portfolios containing equities.

Contributions assess hedge fund success, offer better estimation of implied volatility, extension of real options to include information items as underlying assets, analysis of whether a firm's founders can take artificial dividends without consequence, the uneasiness of real estate, and accountability for attempted artificial earnings management.

Research in Finance Vol 32 reflects the current and primary issues in financial markets and to applying financial modeling in emerging markets.

The volume first investigates the impact of macroeconomic variables on equity values in emerging economies as compared with developed economies. Next it affirms the efficiency of the Midcontinent Independent System Operator electricity exchange. Finally it investigates efforts to stimulate emerging nations around the world.