New Research in Corporate Finance and Banking or Diversified Health Occupations Essentials

New Research in Corporate Finance and Banking

Author: Bruno Biais

The selection of papers presented in these two volumes reflects the depth and breadth of the research interests of European scholars in financial economics. Topics discussed include asset pricing in the context of perfect markets and of market imperfections, the interaction between business cycle and financial imperfections, take over bids, and the interplay between banks and financial markets. These two volumes will provide an invaluable reference tool for scholars in the field.

Table of Contents:

Introduction, Bruno Biais and Marco Pagano

1. I. Going Public Why Do Companies Go Public?: An Empirical Analysis, Marco Pagano, Fabio Panetta, and Luigi Zingales

2. Underpricing, Ownership, and Control in Initial Public Offerings of Equity Securities in the UK, M. J. Brennan and J. Franks

3. Going Public and the Ownership Structure of the Firm, Antonio S. Mello and John E. Parsons

4. Toeholds and Takeovers, Jeremy Bulow, Ming, Huang, and Paul Klemperer

5. Underpricing and Entrepreneurial Wealth Losses in IPOs: Theory and Evidence, Michel A. Habib and Alexander P. Ljungqvist

6. II. Financial System Architecture Financial System Architecture, Arnoud W. A. Boot and Anjan V. Thakor

7. Banking Scope and Financial Innovation, Arnoud W. A. Boot and Anjan V. Thakor

8. III. Design of Credit Contracts and Institutions Optimal Debt Structure and the Number of Creditors, Patrick Bolton and David S. Scharfstein

9. Information Sharing in Credit Markets, Marco Pagano and Tullio Jappelli

10. Endogenous Communication among Lenders and Entrepreneurial Incentives, A. Jorge Padilla and Marco Pagano

11. IV. Credit Market Imperfections and Economic Activity Survival of the Fittest or the Fattest?: Exit and Financing in the Trucking Industry, Luigi Zingales

12. Endogenous Cycles in a Stiglitz--Weiss Economy, Javier Suarez and Oren Sussman

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Diversified Health Occupations Essentials

Author: Louise M Simmers

This concise new book presents Part One of the new full-color fourth edition of Diversified Health Occupations, providing the essential core concepts and skills that users need to move into any health care career. Included in the Essentials version are such relevant topics as workplace readiness skills, safety, infection control, vital signs, workplace technology, and first aid. The superb teaching tools include new full-color design and photos, as well as eye-catching icons that alert users and to important connections to academics and workplace safety issues.