Stock market efficiency, insider dealing and market abuse

ch. 1. Why the stock market and its efficiency are so important -- ch. 2. How shares are traded and valued -- ch. 3. The efficient capital markets hypothesis -- ch. 4. Market irrationality : bubbles, manias, panics and crashes -- ch. 5. Out-performing the market : the case of mergers and takeovers -- ch. 6. The regulation of the markets -- ch. 7. Market abuse -- ch. 8. The role, use and abuse of financial and accounting data : information asymmetry -- ch. 9. The way forward.