In a global perspective, researchers explore such aspects of financial economics as firm growth, investment risks, and the profitability of the banking industry. They cover market efficiency, arbitrage, and delivery options in the NYMEX crude oil market; financial decisions and growth of the firm under high and low levels of information asymmetry; whether growth is risky: evidence from India; detecting profitability and investment risk premiums in the French stock market; stock market volatility, modeling, and forecasting with a special reference to BSE Sensex; whether Italian banks profit by using derivatives: evidence from the recent recession of the Italian economy; and the impact of US dollar index on emerging stocks markets: a simultaneous granger causality and rolling correlation analysis. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution.