Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications (Mcgraw-hill Education Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate) - Hardcover

Ross, Stephen; Westerfield, Randolph; Jaffe, Jeffrey; Jordan, Bradford

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1259289907 ISBN 13: 9781259289903

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2017

Synopsis

Ross/Westerfield/Jaffe/Jordan's Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications was written to convey the most important corporate finance concepts and applications at a level that is approachable to the widest possible audience.  The concise format, managerial context and design, and student-friendly writing style are key attributes to this text.    The well-respected author team is known for the clear, accessible presentation of material that makes this text an excellent teaching tool.  And with the Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill’s Connect® empowers students by continually adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so your class time is more engaging and effective.

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About the Authors

Randolph W. Westerfield is Dean Emeritus and the Charles B. Thornton Professor in Finance Emeritus at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Professor Westerfield came to USC from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was the chairman of the finance department and a member of the finance faculty for 20 years. He is a member of the board of trustees of Oaktree Capital mutual funds. His areas of expertise include corporate financial policy, investment management, and stock market price behavior.

Bradford D. Jordan is Visiting Scholar in the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida. He previously held the duPont Endowed Chair in Banking and Financial Services at the University of Kentucky, where he was department chair for many years. Professor Jordan has published numerous articles in top journals on issues such as cost of capital, capital structure, and the behavior of security prices. He is a past president of the Southern Finance Association, and he is coauthor of Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management, 9e, a leading investments text, also published by McGraw Hill.

The late Stephen A. Ross was the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the most widely published authors in finance and economics, Professor Ross was known for his work in developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory as well as his substantial contributions to the discipline through his research on signaling, agency theory, option pricing, and the theory of the term structure of interest rates, among other topics. A past president of the American Finance Association, he also served as an associate editor of various academic and practitioner journals. He was a trustee of CalTech. 

Jeffrey F. Jaffe has been a frequent contributor to finance and economic literature in such journals as the Quarterly Economic Journal, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Journal of Financial Economics, and The Financial Analysts Journal . His best-known work concerns insider trading, where he showed both that corporate insiders earn abnormal profits from their trades and that regulation has little effect on these profits. He has also made contributions concerning initial public offerings, the regulation of utilities, the behavior of market makers, the fluctuation of gold prices, the theoretical effect of inflation on the interest rate, the empirical effect of inflation on capital asset prices, the relationship between small-capitalization stocks and the January effect, and the capital structure decision.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1259289907
• ISBN 13: 9781259289903
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 680