Microfinance Volume - An Overview of Financial Literature

Author: Chen Yulu
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: The "Comprehensive Review of Finance Literature" series is divided into three volumes: Volume 1 introduces and reviews authoritative original papers in the field of modern finance and monetary economics, including 22 papers on macrofinance and 21 papers on microfinance. Volume 2 summarizes the origins, development, and current hot topics of major theories in microfinance fields such as modern asset pricing, corporate finance, financial derivatives, and behavioral finance. Volume 3 vertically reviews the origins, development process, current stage, and future research directions of core theories in macrofinance fields such as monetary banking and international finance. This book is a landmark achievement of the "Metal Policy and Financial Management" project under the Ministry of Education's "Project 211" undertaken by the School of Public Finance and Finance at Renmin University of China, and is the second volume of the "Comprehensive Review of Finance Literature" series. It vertically reviews modern financial research literature by field or topic. The book includes a total of 37 literature review papers, including 14 on asset pricing, 12 on corporate finance, 8 on financial derivatives and fixed-income securities, and 3 on behavioral finance. The included literature review papers cover the key and hot issues of major research areas in modern finance.