In the business-to-business (B2B) sector, new supply-chain models within electronic marketplaces (eMarketplaces) offer firms significantly lower procurement costs, increased operating efficiencies, and expanded market opportunities. Using event-study methodology to look at the period July...

Within a dynamic setting, optimal corporate strategy management for a multi-division corporation involves restructuring a portfolio of Strategic Business Units (SBUs) periodically so as to maximize the firm's market value. Real option theory has been applied to model and explain managerial...

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 loa