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Table of Contents

VOLUME 1
PREFACE: EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE
B. ESPEN ECKBO
PART 1 – ECONOMETRIC ISSUES AND METHODOLGICAL TRENDS
Chapter 1
Econometrics of event studies
S.P. KOTHARI and JEROLD B. WARNER
Chapter 2
Self-selection models in corporate finance
KAI LI and NAGPURNANAND R. PRABHALA
Chapter 3
Auctions in corporate finance
SUDIPTO DASGUPTA and ROBERT G. HANSEN
Chapter 4
Behavioral corporate finance
MALCOLM BAKER, RICHARD S. RUBACK and JEFFERY WURGLER
PART 2 – BANKING, PUBLIC OFFERINGS, AND PRIVATE SOURCES OF CAPITAL
Chapter 5
Banks in capital markets
STEVEN DRUCKER and MANJU PURI
Chapter 6
Security Offerings
B. ESPEN ECKBO, RONALD W. MASULIS and ØYVIND NORLI
Chapter 7
IPO underpricing
ALEXANDER LJUNGQVIST
Chapter 8
Conglomerate firms and internal capital markets
VOJISLAV MAKSIMOVIC and GORDON PHILLIPS
Chapter 9
Venture capital
PAUL GOMPERS
EMPIRICAL CORPORATE FINANCE

About the Author

Professor B. Espen Eckbo holds the Tuck Centennial Chair in Finance. He is also Faculty Director of Tuck's Lindenauer Center for Corporate Governance, which he founded in 1999. He teaches advanced MBA courses in the areas of corporate finance, corporate takeovers and international corporate governance. Professor Eckbo, who received a PhD in financial economics from the University of Rochester in 1981, has published extensively in the top finance journals in the areas of corporate finance, investment banking, and the market for corporate control. He is a recipient of an honorary doctoral degree from the Norwegian School of Economics, the prestigious Batterymarch Fellowship, as well as several outstanding-paper awards. He is a research Associate of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and a frequent keynote and invited seminar speaker. He was called in 2009 by the U.S. Congress to testify on issues concerning the government’s large equity ownership positions in companies rescued under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

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“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

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