Handbook of Corporate Finance Empirical Corporate Finance Eckbo Volume 1

Handbook of Corporate FinanceEmpirical Corporate Finance\nAuthor(s): Bjrn Espen Eckbo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science & Technology, United States\nImprint: North-Holland\nISBN-13: 9780444508980, 978-0444508980\nSynopsis\nJudging by the sheer number of papers reviewed in this Handbook, the empirical analysis of firms financing and investment decisionsempirical corporate financehas become a dominant field in financial economics. The growing interest in everything corporate? is fueled by a healthy combination of fundamental theoretical developments and recent widespread access to large transactional data bases. A less scientificbut nevertheless importantsource of inspiration is a growing awareness of the important social implications of corporate behavior and governance. This Handbook takes stock of the main empirical findings to date across an unprecedented spectrum of corporate finance issues, ranging from econometric methodology, to raising capital and capital stru.