This series focuses on topics such as international financial markets, pricing options on foreign assets and the ECU as the financing currency. This volume includes a section on European acquisitions by French banks, strategies and the European financial structure. Other areas covered include: regulatory taxes; investment and financing decisions for insured banks; free trade and the European financial structure; and a critical reexamination of the return geneship process of the arbitrage pricing theory.
Regulatory taxes, investment, and financing decisions for insured banks, Anlong Li et al; European acquisitions by French banks, strategies, and the European financial structure - insights into a complex relationship, Bernard Marois, Francois Lepineux; project and firm valuation, foreign exchange exposure, and accounting methods with an option to liquidate, Tong Kim, Edward Omberg; listing in the U.S. markets by foreign firms - evidence on return and risks, K.G. Viswanathan; stock volatility and impact of news - the case of four Asia-Pacific markets, Y.K. Tse, X.L. Zuo; a critical re-examination of the return generating process of the arbitrage pricing theory, George Diacogiannis et al; free trade and the U.S. financial services industries - assessment from the reaction of stock prices of financial firms to the U.S.-Canada free trade agreement, Shahid S. Hamid et al; the public concern - "it's the fundamentals stupid" - the Orange Country bankruptcy in perspective, Sarkis Joseph Khoury; abstract of the paper "Credit market reputation and the optimality of financing through subsidiaries", Thomas J. Chemmanur.