This book combines academic research and practical expertise on alternative assets and trading strategies in a unique way. The asset classes that are discussed include: credit risk, cross-asset derivatives, energy, private equity, freight agreements, alternative real assets (ARA), and socially...

This paper brings together three major themes in laying out a roadmap for the economic vitality of the United States in the global arena of the 21st century. First, megaregions, in the US and around the world are become the crucibles of economic growth and development as they compete across, if...

This paper examines the relation between business strategy and labour investment efficiency. Since business strategy affects both the agency problem and firm-level uncertainty, as well as the overall shape of corporate behaviour, we would expect the efficiency of labour investment to vary with...

This paper characterizes how firms' strategic interaction in product markets affects the industry dynamics of investment and expected returns. In imperfectly competitive industries, a firm's exposure to systematic risk is jointly affected by its own investment strategy and the investment...