Handbook of the Economics of Finance

Milt Harris is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Finance Association. He is past president of the Western Finance Association and the Society for Financial Studies.

"A scholarly compendium of contemporary research in Financial Economics which will be of great value not only for researchers in finance but also for researchers in many other of economics including money and banking, growth and development, international economics, public finance, and macro economics." --Edward C. Prescott, Nobel Laureate, Arizona State University"This Handbook provides a timely and comprehensive account of the state-of-the-art of Financial Economics, including corporate finance and asset pricing, written by many of the leading names in their respective fields." --Harry M.Markowitz, Nobel Laureate, University of California, San Diego

• 1. Financial Intermediation, the Credit Markets, and Alternative Financial Systems2. Financial Innovation and Securitization3. Dynamic Security Design and Corporate Financing4. Corporate Taxes5. Executive Compensation and Firm Performance6. Behavioral Corporate Finance7. Law and Finance after a Decade of Research8. Venture Capital and Private Equity9. Endogeneity and other Econometric Issues in Empirical Corporate Finance10. Entrepreneurship and Family Firms11. Financing in Developing Countries