This research utilizes the most recent research in psychology to analyze the innate causes of financial cycles within the context of applied financial theory. Such cycles are shown to be consistent with both human biology and efficient markets, but the brain states induced by biological...

This research investigates the existence of segmentation in the market for fixedincome securities. Evidence is found of higher yield spreads being required for non-distressed bonds making larger contributions to the risk of pure debt portfolios over the 2003–2011 period. Abnormal returns...

This research analyzes a theory of merger financing that indicates that the terms of payment for target shares should be used to optimally influence the postmerger liquidity and capital structure of the combined firm. In an empirical test on a large sample of mergers, the stock market reaction...

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...

Held at Oakland University, School of Business Administration, Department of Accounting and Finance. 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...