Encyclopedia of Finance / Encyclopedia of Finance (eReference work) von Cheng-Few Lee

This is a major new reference work covering all aspects of finance from financial markets to real estate. It has an international approach to ensure its maximum appeal and readers will find the encyclopedia to be an invaluable resource.

Preface. -Terms, definitions and short essays. -Deposit insurance schemes. -Gramm-Leach-Bailey Act: creating a new bank for a new millennium. -Comparative analysis of zero-coupon and coupon-pre-funded bonds.- Intertemporal risk and currency risk.- Credit derivatives.- international parity conditions and market risk.- Treasury inflation-indexed securities.- Asset pricing models.- Conditional asset pricing.- Conditional performance evaluation.- Working capital and cash flow.- Evaluating fund performance within the stochastic discount factor framework.- Duration analysis and its applications.- Loan contract terms.- Chinese a and b shares.- Decimal trading in the U.S. stock markets.- The 1997 nasdaq trading rules.- Reincorporation.- Men variance portfolio allocation.- Online trading.- A note on the relationship amount the portfolio performance indices under rank transformation.- Corporate failure.- Review of REIT and MBS.- Experimental economics and the theory of finance.- Merger and acquisition.- Multi-stage compound real options and case study.- Market efficiency hypothesis.- The microstructure/micro-finance approach to exchange rates.- arbitrage and market frictions.- fundamental tradeoffs associated with the publicly trade corporation.- The Mexican peso crisis.- Portfolio performance evaluation.- Call auction trading.- Market liquidity.- Market makers.- Structure of securities.- Accounting scandals and implications for directors: lessons from enron.- Agent-based models of financial markets.- The Asian bond market.- Cross-border mergers and acquisitions.- Jump diffusion model.- Networks, nodes, and priority rules.- The momentum trading strategy.- Equilibrium credit rationing and monetary non-neutrality in a small open economy.- Policy coordination between wages and exchange rates in Singapore.- The le chatelier principle of the capital market equilibrium.- MBS valuation and prepayments.- The impact of IMF bailouts in international debt crises.- Appendix.- References.- Index.

The Encyclopedia of Finance is a major new reference work covering all aspects of finance. Coverage includes finance (financial managment, security analysis, portfolio management, financial markets and instruments, insurance, real estate, options and futures, international finance) and statistical applications in finance (applications in portfolio analysis, option pricing models and financial research). The project is designed to attract both an academic and professional market. It will also have international approach to ensure its maximum appeal.

Professor Lee is the distinguished Professor of Finance atRutgers University, 07/95-present and the University Chair Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, 08/04 - present. Professor Lee was ranked as the most published finance professor worldwide during 1953-2002. Prof. Alice C. Lee has agreat dealof working experience in finance industry.