Quantitative Corporate Finance

John B. Guerard, Jr., Ph.D. is Director of Quantitative Research at McKinley Capital Management, in Anchorage, Alaska. Dr. Guerard has published several monographs, including Corporate Financial Policy and R&D Management (Wiley, 2006, second edition), Quantitative Corporate Finance (Springer, 2007, with Eli Schwartz, second edition in preparation), The Handbook of Portfolio Construction: Contemporary Applications of Markowitz Techniques (Springer, 2010), and Introduction to Financial Forecasting in Investment Analysis (Springer, 2013), and Portfolio and Investment Analysis using SAS (SAS Press, 2019, with Ganlin Xu). John serves an Associate Editor of the Journal of Investing and The International Journal of Forecasting. Dr. Guerard has published research in The International Journal of Forecasting, Management Science, the Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Investing, Research in Finance, the IBM Journal of Research and Development, Research Policy, and the Journal of the Operational Research Society.Anureet Saxena, Ph.D. in Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon, with publications in Mathematical Programming, the Journal of Portfolio Management, Journal of Investing, and Frontiers in Applied Mathematical and Statistics.Mustafa Gultekin, Ph.D. in Finance, New York University, has published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, and Research in Finance.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Capital Formation, Risk, and the Corporation.- Chapter 2. The Corporation and Other Forms of Business Organization.- Chapter 3. The Corporation Balance Sheet.- Chapter 4. The Annual Operating Statements: The Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement.- Chapter 5. Financing Current Operations and Efficiency Ratio Analysis.- Chapter 6. Financing Current Operations and the Cash Budget.- Chapter 7. Capital and New Issue Markets.-  Chapter 8. The Equity of the Corporation: Common and Preferred Stock.- Chapter 9. Long-Term Debt.- Chapter 10. Debt, Equity, the Optimal Financial Structure and the Cost of Funds.- Chapter 11. Investing in Assets: Theory of Investment Decision Making.- Chapter 12. Regression Analysis and Estimating Regression Models.- Chapter 13. Time Series Modeling and the Forecasting Effectiveness of the U.S. Leading Economic Indicators.- Chapter 14. Risk and Return of Equity and the Capital Asset Pricing Model.- Chapter 15. Multi-Factor Risk Modelsand Portfolio Construction and Management.- Chapter 16. Options.- Chapter 17. Real Options.- Chapter 18. Mergers and Acquisitions.- Chapter 19. Liquidation, Failure, Bankruptcy, and Reorganization.- Chapter 20. Corporation Growth and Economic Growth and Stability.- Chapter 21. International Business Finance.- Chapter 22. Management-Stockholder Relations: Is Optimal Behavior All that is Necessary?.