Requiring companies to expense options in the absence of any satisfactory method to evaluate their costs would be inconsistent with the principles and objectives of accounting.

Requiring companies to expense options in the absence of any satisfactory method to evaluate their costs would be inconsistent with the principles and objectives of accounting.

In this volume, the author describes the changes in wages during the 1980s that led to increased rewards in schooling in the labor market.

The authors demonstrate how regulation intended to control costs can exacerbate cost growth by subsidizing high-risk activities and firms at the expense of low-risk activities and firms.

Revolutionary changes, includingthe shrinking of traditional banking and the expansion of trading in foreign securities, have recently rocked financial markets.

Key economists for the government and for the Microsoft Corporation lay out their views on the key issues and then respond to the views presented by the opposing side.

Two achievements--up the poor and animating civil society--are powerful moral claims for business corporations but schemes for corporate governance jeopardize these achievements.

Today's knowledge-based economy requires an entirely new system of assessing the value of companies--a system tapping the vast communication capabilities of the Internet.

This book discusses banking, insurance, and securities regulation, as well as issues in consumer finance and electronic commerce.

The bookpresents different perspectives that explain the prohibition of insider trading and the way it affects various aspects of life on the stock market.