We wrote the first edition of this textbook more than ten years ago. The intervening years
have been a period of rapid and profound change in the investments industry. This is due in …

Objective. To verify and determine the cause of an increase in the referral of infants with
plagiocephaly without synostosis (PWS) to a single tertiary craniofacial center. Design. A chart …

Equilibrium in the market for real assets requires that the price of those assets be bid up to
reflect the tax shields they can offer to levered firms. Thus, there must be an equality between …

We examine abnormal stock returns surrounding contemporaneous earnings and dividend
announcements in order to determine whether investors evaluate the two announcements in …

A variety of commercially available three-dimensional (3D) surface imaging systems are
currently in use by craniofacial specialists. Little is known, however, about how measurement …

This paper uses an option valuation model of the firm to answer the question, “What magnitude
tax advantage to debt is consistent with the range of observed corporate debt ratios?” We …

One of the virtues of parameter preference models (presented in general form in Rubinstein [23])
is their empirical content. Applied models of financial theory rely heavily on the mean …

… Engle and Alex Kane … Bodie, Kane, and McDonald (1983) and Pindyck (1988) assume a
singlefactor CAPM, and use a ‘reasonable’ parameter for relative risk aversion (between 3 and …

Background: The neuropsychological morbidity of nonsyndromic craniosynostosis is
incompletely understood. The purpose of this study was to establish the prevalence of speech-…

Introducing... Essentials of Investments, 9th Global Edition, by Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane and
Alan J. Marcus. We are pleased to present this Global Edition, which has been developed …