"This book provides a summary of state-of-the-art methods and research in the analysis of credit. As such, it offers very useful insights into this vital area of finance, which has too often been under-researched and little-taught in academia. Including an overview of processes that are utilized...

This research shows how firms can issue put options on their own stock to insure against bankruptcy. The analysis demonstrates that equity put options are far cheaper than alternative methods of reducing the chance of bankruptcy. Potential agency problems associated with such puts are discussed...

Within the context of fundamentally efficient markets, this paper demonstrates analytically how short sellers can put non-transitory downward pressure on the stock market prices and intrinsic values of companies that need to raise external capital because of insufficient internal liquidity. The...

This research shows stock prices to be a function of long-term earnings forecasts, as is consistent with financial theory. Stock prices reflect not only the average of the IBES long-term earnings predictions but also some superior forecasting power beyond that aggregated average prediction

The recent stock market bubble of the late 1990s and subsequent crash has made people more aware of the need to conduct practical financial analysis. Practical financial economics, i.e., the application of financial theory to practical financial analysis, is explained here with respect to a...