Security Analysis and Investment Management

Investment Banking

This note covers overview and history of investment banking, Mergers and acquisitions, Syndicates in IPOs, The underwriting spread in IPOs, Underpricing of IPOs, The market share in IPOs, Conflicts of interest for analysts in investment banks, Financial engineering, Relationship vs transaction banking, New technologies in investment banking, Organization and culture of investment banks, Costs and strategies of investment banks.

Author(s): Dr Andreas Krause

84 Pages

A European Public Investment Outlook

This book online A European Public Investment Outlook covers the following topics related to Investments : Europe Needs More Public Investment, Public Investment and Capital in France, Public Investment in Germany: The Need for a Big Push, Public Investment Trends across Levels of Government in Italy, Trends and Patterns in Public Investment in Spain: A Medium- and Long-Run Perspective, In Search of a Strategy for Public Investment in Research and Innovation, Social Investment and Infrastructure, From Trans-European (Ten-T) to Trans-Global (Twn-T) Transport Infrastructure Networks. A Conceptual Framework, Ecological Transition, The Contribution of European Cohesion Policy to Public Investment.

Author(s): Franco Bassanini, Alberto Quadrio Curzio, and Xavier Ragot

NA Pages

Investment Philosophies

This note covers the following topics: Ingredients of an Investment Philosophy, Categorizing Investment Philosophies, Developing an Investment Philosophy, Market Timing, The Cost of Market Timing, Charting and Technical Analysis, Small Cap and Growth Investing, The Passive Screener, Value Investing, Information Trading.

Author(s): Aswath Damodaran

219 Pages

Fixed Income Securities Lecture Notes

This note explores key concepts in understanding fixed income instruments. This note will comprehensively cover topics related to fixed income instruments, including nominal yields, effective yields, yield to maturity, spot rates, forward rates, present value, future value, mortgage payments, term structure of interest rates, bond price sensitivity to interest rate changes, hedging, horizon analysis, credit risk, default probability, recovery rates, floaters, inverse floaters, swaps, forward rate agreements, Eurodollars, convertible bonds, callable bonds, interest rate models, risk neutral pricing, and fixed income arbitrage.

Author(s): Professor Doron Avramov

424 Pages

Foreign Direct Investment Analysis of Aggregate Flows

This book provides a treatise of the unique features of FDI flows, covering both theory and data. It focuses on the determinants of the aggregate flows of FDI at the source-host country level. The book is likely to find its main readership among academics, graduate students, and trained policy professionals.

Author(s): Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

215 Pages

Topics in Asset Pricing Lecture Notes

This note covers the following topics: From CAPM to market anomalies, Credit risk implications for the cross section of asset returns, Rational versus behavioural attributes of stylized cross-sectional effects, Conditional CAPM, Conditional versus unconditional portfolio efficiency, Multi-factor models, Interpreting factor models, Machine learning methods in asset pricing: Lasso, Ridge, elastic net, group Lasso, Neural Network, and Random Forest, Panel regressions with fixed effects and their association with market-timing and cross-section, investment strategies, Consumption based asset pricing models, The discount factor representation in asset pricing, The equity premium puzzle, The risk free rate puzzle, The Epstein-Zin preferences.

Author(s): Professor Doron Avramov

248 Pages