Modern Finance and Industrial Economics - Hardcover

This collection of 13 original papers by experts in industrial organization, corporate finance and financial theory honours J. Fred Weston for his contribution to this field of inquiry. Among the topics discussed are the dynamics of monopoly pricing; mergers, buy-outs, spin-offs; capital structure and the cost of capital; risk and return; and information and markets. From their various perspectives, the essays underscore the analytical connections which unite their fields. The contributors are: Edward M. Rice, Manak C. Gupta, Stanley I. Ornstein, Richard Roll, Harry DeAngelo, Jeffrey F. Jaffe, Randolph Westerfield, Kwang S. Chung, Richard L. Smith II, Edward I. Altman, Scott Nammacher, Chi-Cheng hsia, William Beranek and Mark Rubinstein.