Böcker i Foundations and Trends (R) in Finance-serien

The Economics of Securities Regulation: A Survey gives an overview of the U.S. regulatory system, explores the justifications for regulating securities markets, and describes the qualitative and quantitative literature that assesses the regulatory system's effectiveness.

This monograph provides a comprehensive overview of the role of institutional investors in corporate governance.

Labour income risk is key to the welfare of most people and this risk is mainly insured 'within the firm' and by public institutions, rather than by financial markets. This book asks why such insurance is provided within the firm, and what determines its boundaries. It also explores the connection between risk sharing and firms' capital structure.

Does heterogeneity matter for asset pricing and, in particular, for risk premia? This volume provides a unified framework to better understand this large literature and to reconcile several of the seemingly inconsistent results found in some seminal papers.

Provides an updated and comprehensive review of China's financial system and compares it with financial systems in other countries. The book reviews what has worked and what has not within the markets and intermediaries in China, and further considers the effects of the recent development of China's financial system on the real economy.

Updates an earlier review by the authors. This book includes reviews of recent studies on topics that were covered in the earlier survey, and summarises research on new topics. These new topics cover a broad gamut of issues, ranging from hedge funds' use of leverage and exposure to different risks to their impact on various asset markets.

Provides the most comprehensive review of all major research domains involving credit default swaps (CDS). CDS have been growing in importance in the global financial markets. However, their role has been hotly debated, in industry and academia, particularly since the credit crisis of 2007-2009.

Provides an overview of how liquidity is measured and of specialized issues in liquidity measurement. The book also examines what is known about cross-sectional and time-series patterns in liquidity. The authors then review how liquidity relates to the corporate finance literature.

Reviews the theoretical literature on disclosure, tying it to the recent policy debate on whether stress-test results should be disclosed. The authors review the nature of stress tests required by the Dodd-Frank act and conducted by the Federal Reserve, an important aspect of which is the public disclosure of the results.

Puts into perspective one of the most persistent empirical phenomena in finance: equity home bias. The book provides a review of the competing measures of home bias, the explanations for the equity home bias, and lay out the implications of international under-diversification for portfolio formation and the cost of capital of companies.

Explains the models and techniques used in this literature as simply as possible, with the intent of making the literature more accessible; introduces the reader to the main strands of this literature; and explains how dynamic models can be taken to the data and be estimated with the intent to provide a practical, hands-on guide.

There is universal agreement that the cause of the global economic crisis of 2007-09 was the combination of a credit boom and a housing bubble. This book argues that what made this economic shock unique and led to such a severe financial crisis was the behaviour of the large, complex financial institutions that dominate the financial industry.

Provides a structured approach to behavioural finance in respect to underlying psychological concepts, formal framework, testable hypotheses, and empirical findings. A key theme of the volume is that the future of finance will combine realistic assumptions from behavioural finance and rigorous analysis from neoclassical finance.

Reviews the literature that studies the relationship between liquidity and asset prices. The authors review the theoretical literature that predicts how liquidity affects a security's required return and discuss the empirical connection between the two.