What determines a company’s financial health and what drives company value? This third-edition book enables non-specialists to grasp all relevant financial information using tools that allow efficient financial analyses and allows specialists to gain new perspectives on the matter.

After affecting all sectors of commerce, the digital revolution has now hit the financial sector, a sector that is protected by a specific regulatory environment.

Since there are currently no “codes of best practice” for internal governance, the authors had to rely on governance literature, governance experts and their own research to develop a number of basic principles of internal governance within corporations.

From the start of the financial crisis in 2007, which turned into an economic crisis soon afterwards, it was obvious that public law could not prevent the genesis of this crisis. But is there also a connection between private law and the outbreak of the financial and economic crisis? This thought-provoking book shows that private law provides as many useful institutions, mechanisms and instruments against the emergence of such a crisis as pub...

This book gives you a systematic and comprehensive overview of all specific aspects and methods related to the valuation of small and medium-sized companies, while it also presents alternative ways to look at the valuation and valuation process using practical cases and examples. It not only presents a wide range of techniques to determine the value of a business, but also offers you interesting insights to challenge the different traditional ...

This booklet contains the lecture given by Paul Jorion at the occasion of his acceptance of the chair “Stewardship of Finance” at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels.

This book deals with the endeavor of national and supranational legislators to develop more attractive corporate legal forms and investment frameworks. It focuses on some recent national corporate law reforms, the newly introduced European legal form Societas Europaea and the choice of law in corporate debt securities.

This book presents a systematic research method for assessing policy questions from an economic and a behavioural economic perspective.

Like many other markets, stock markets are characterised by asymmetric information. If investors cannot distinguish high-quality from low-quality securities, they will value all securities as average resulting in the well known market for lemons. How can high-quality listed companies communicate with stock markets to distinguish themselves from low-quality listed companies?