PART I. INTRODUCTION
1. The Corporation
2. Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis
3. The Law of One Price and Financial Decision Making
PART II. TIME, MONEY, AND INTEREST RATES
4. The Time Value of Money
5. Interest Rates
6. Valuing Bonds
PART III. VALUING PROJECTS AND FIRMS
7. Investment Decision Rules
8. Fundamentals of Capital Budgeting
9. Valuing Stocks
PART IV. RISK AND RETURN
10. Capital Markets and the Pricing of Risk
11. Optimal Portfolio Choice and the Capital Asset Pricing
Model
12. Estimating the Cost of Capital
13. Investor Behavior and Capital Market Efficiency
PART V. CAPITAL STRUCTURE
14. Capital Structure in a Perfect Market
15. Debt and Taxes
16. Financial Distress, Managerial Incentives, and Information
17. Payout Policy
PART VI. ADVANCED VALUATION
18. Capital Budgeting and Valuation with Leverage
19. Valuation and Financial Modeling: A Case Study
PART VII. OPTIONS
20. Financial Operations
21. Option Valuation
22. Real Options
PART VIII. LONG-TERM FINANCING
23. Raising Equity Capital
24. Debt Financing
25. Leasing
PART IX. SHORT-TERM FINANCING
26. Working Capital Management
27. Short-Term Financial Planning
PART X. SPECIAL TOPICS
28. Mergers and Acquisitions
29. Corporate Governance
30. Risk Management
31. International Corporate Finance
Jonathan Berk is the A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance at
the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University and is a
Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Before coming to Stanford, he was the Sylvan Coleman Professor of
Finance at Haas School of Business at the University of California,
Berkeley. Prior to earning his Ph.D., he worked as an Associate at
Goldman Sachs (where his education in finance really began).
Professor Berk’s research interests in finance include corporate
valuation, capital structure, mutual funds, asset pricing,
experimental economics, and labor economics. His work has won a
number of research awards including the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson
Award, the Smith Breeden Prize, Best Paper of the Year in The
Review of Financial Studies, and the FAME Research Prize. His
paper, “A Critique of Size-Related Anomalies,” was selected as one
of the two best papers ever published in The Review of Financial
Studies. In recognition of his influence on the practice of finance
he has received the Bernstein-Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award, the Graham
and Dodd Award of Excellence, and the Roger F. Murray Prize. He
served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance for eight
years, is currently an Academic Director of the Financial
Management Association, and is a member of the advisory board of
the Journal of Portfolio Management.
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Professor Berk is married, with
two daughters, and is an avid skier and biker.
Peter DeMarzo is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of
Finance and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the
Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a Research
Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He currently
teaches MBA and Ph.D. courses in Corporate Finance and Financial
Modeling. In addition to his experience at the Stanford Graduate
School of Business, Professor DeMarzo has taught at the Haas School
of Business and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and he
was a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Professor DeMarzo received the Sloan Teaching Excellence Award at
Stanford in 2004 and 2006, and the Earl F. Cheit Outstanding
Teaching Award at U.C. Berkeley in 1998. Professor DeMarzo has
served as an Associate Editor for The Review of Financial Studies,
Financial Management, and the B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis
and Policy, as well as a Director of the American Finance
Association. He has served as Vice President and is currently
President-elect of the Western Finance Association. Professor
DeMarzo’s research is in the area of corporate finance, asset
securitization, and contracting, as well as market structure and
regulation. His recent work has examined issues of the optimal
design of contracts and securities, the regulation of insider
trading and broker-dealers, and the influence of information
asymmetries on corporate investment. He has received numerous
awards including the Western Finance Association Corporate Finance
Award and the Barclays Global Investors/Michael Brennan best-paper
award from The Review of Financial Studies.
Professor DeMarzo was born in Whitestone, New York, and is married
with three boys. He and his family enjoy hiking, biking, and
skiing.
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