TY - BOOK AU - Grinblatt, Mark; AU - Titman, Sheridan TI - Financial markets and corporate strategy SN - 9780070495098 U1 - 658.15 GRI PY - 2002/// CY - Boston : PB - McGraw-Hill Irwin, KW - Financial Markets KW - Financial institutions -- United States. KW - Corporations -- United States -- Finance N1 - pt. I. Financial markets and financial instruments. 1. Raising capital. 2. Debt financing. 3. Equity financing -- pt. II. Valuing financial assets. 4. Portfolio tools. 5. Mean-variance analysis and the capital asset pricing model. 6. Factor models and the arbitrage pricing theory. 7. Pricing derivatives. 8. Options. 9. Discounting and valuation. -- pt. III. Valuing real assets. 10. Investing in risk-free projects. 11. Investing in risky projects. 12. Allocating capital and corporate strategy. 13. Corporate taxes and the impact of financing on real asset valuation -- pt. IV. Capital financial structure. 14. How taxes affect financing choices. 15. How taxes affect dividends and share repurchases. 16. Bankruptcy costs and debt holder-equity holder conflicts. 17. Capital structure and corporate strategy -- pt. V. Incentives, information, and corporate control. 18. How managerial incentives affect financial decisions. 19. The information conveyed by financial decisions. 20. Mergers and acquisitions -- pt. VI. Risk management. 21. Risk management and corporate strategy. 22. The practice of hedging. 23. Interest rate risk management -- Appendix A: mathematical tables ER -