Handbook of Corporate Finance

Empirical Corporate Finance

Edited by

B. Espen Eckbo, Center for Corporate Governance Tuck School at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA

Audience
Researchers and academics in economics and finance

Included in series
Handbooks in Finance

Hardbound, 558 Pages

Published: April 2007

Imprint: North-holland

ISBN: 978-0-444-50898-0

This is an excellent collection of articles with very good authors and breadth of coverage. It is an important book for all scholars of corporate finance. Franklin Allen University of Pennsylvania "This is an excellent collection of articles. These surveys will be very valuable for both research and teaching." Michael J. Fishman Northwestern University

VOLUME 1PREFACE: EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCEB. ESPEN ECKBOPART 1 ECONOMETRIC ISSUES AND METHODOLGICAL TRENDSChapter 1Econometrics of event studiesS.P. KOTHARI and JEROLD B. WARNERChapter 2Self-selection models in corporate financeKAI LI and NAGPURNANAND R. PRABHALAChapter 3Auctions in corporate financeSUDIPTO DASGUPTA and ROBERT G. HANSENChapter 4Behavioral corporate financeMALCOLM BAKER, RICHARD S. RUBACK and JEFFERY WURGLERPART 2 BANKING, PUBLIC OFFERINGS, AND PRIVATE SOURCES OF CAPITALChapter 5Banks in capital marketsSTEVEN DRUCKER and MANJU PURIChapter 6Security Offerings B. ESPEN ECKBO, RONALD W. MASULIS and ØYVIND NORLIChapter 7IPO underpricingALEXANDER LJUNGQVISTChapter 8Conglomerate firms and internal capital marketsVOJISLAV MAKSIMOVIC and GORDON PHILLIPSChapter 9Venture capitalPAUL GOMPERSEMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE