Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy: European Edition, 3e

David Hillier is Professor of Finance at the University of Strathclyde, teaches regularly in development programs for executives and has taught courses for a wide variety of professional clients, including the World Bank and the National Health Service in the UK. It is part of the editorial board of several international journals of finance. University of California at Los Angeles, Ph.D. Yale Mark Grinblatt is Professor of Finance at UCLAs Anderson School, where he currently serves as chair of the Finance area, and where he began his career in 1981. He is also a director on the board of Salomon Swapco, Inc., a consultant to numerous firms, and serves as an associate editor of Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. From 1987 to 1989, Professor Grinblatt was a visiting professor at the Wharton School and while on leave from UCLA in 1989 and 1990, he was a vice-president for Salomon Brothers, Inc., valuing complex derivatives for the fixed income arbitrage trading group in the firm. Professor Grinblatt is a noted teacher at UCLA, having been awarded teacher of the year in 1993 for UCLAs Fully-Employed MBA Program by a vote of the students. This award was based on his teaching of a course designed around early drafts of this textbook. Professor Grinblatts areas of expertise include investments, performance evaluation of fund managers, fixed income markets, corporate finance and derivatives. The Walter W. McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the University of Texas. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a consultant to a number of firms. Professor Titman began his academic career in 1980 at UCLA, where he served as the department chair for the finance group and as the vice chairman of the UCLA management school faculty. He designed executive education programs in corporate financial strategy at UCLA and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, based on material developed in this book.

Part 1: Financial Markets and Financial Instruments
Chapter 1 Raising Capital: The Process and Players 
Chapter 2Debt Financing 
Chapter 3Equity Financing
 
Part 2: Valuing Financial Assets


Chapter 4Portfolio Tools
Chapter 5Mean-Variance Analysis and the Capital Asset Pricing Model
Chapter 6Factor Models and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory
Chapter 7Pricing Derivatives
Chapter 8Options


Part 3: Valuing Real Assets


Chapter 9Discounting and Valuation
Chapter 10Investing in Risk-Free Projects
Chapter 11Investing in Risky Projects
Chapter 12Allocating Capital and Corporate Strategy
Chapter 13Corporate Taxes and the Impact of Financing on Real Asset Valuation


Part 4: Capital Structure


Chapter 14How Taxes Affect Financing Choices
Chapter 15How Taxes Affect Dividends and Share Repurchases
Chapter 16Bankruptcy Costs and Debt Holder–Equity Holder Conflicts
Chapter 17Capital Structure and Corporate Strategy


Part 5: Incentives, information, and corporate control


Chapter 18How Managerial Incentives Affect Financial Decisions
Chapter 19The Information Conveyed by Financial Decisions
Chapter 20Mergers and Acquisitions


Part 6: Risk Management


Chapter 21Risk Management and Corporate Strategy
Chapter 22The Practice of Hedging
Chapter 23Interest Rate Risk Management