Bodie, Zvi creator Merton, Robert C.; Cleeton, David L. text xx Upper Saddle River, NJ Pearson Education 2009 2nd monographic und

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xxvi, 500 p. : ill.: 26 cm. For undergraduate and graduate courses in corporate finance, financial management, and financial economics. This book seeks to explain finance through its functions rather than its institutions, concentrating on the three pillars of finance: optimization over time, asset valuation, and risk management pt. 1. Finance and the financial system -- Financial economics -- Financial markets and institutions -- Managing financial health and performance -- pt. 2. Time and resource allocation -- Allocating resources over time -- Household saving and investment decisions -- The analysis of investment projects -- pt. 3. Valuation models -- Principles of market valuation -- Valuation of known cash flows: bonds -- Valuation of common stocks -- pt. 4. Risk management and portfolio theory -- Principles of risk management -- Hedging, insuring, and diversifying -- Portfolio opportunities and choice -- pt. 5. Asset pricing -- Capital market equilibrium -- Forward and futures markets -- Markets for options and contingent claims -- pt. 6. Corporate finance -- Financial structure of the firm -- Real options. Zvi Bodie. Includes index English Finance 332 B63f 978-0-13-157952-1 251212 20260803094010.0