Behavioral Corporate Finance identifies the key psychological obstacles to value
maximizing behavior, along with steps that managers can take to mitigate the effects of
these obstacles. The main goal of the book is to help students learn how to put the
traditional tools of corporate finance to their best use, and mitigate the effects of
psychological obstacles that reduce value.
Table of Contents
1- Behavioral Foundations
2- Valuation
3- Capital Budgeting
4- Perceptions About Risk and Return
5- Inefficient Markets and Corporate Decisions
6- Capital Structure
7- Dividend Policy
8- Agency Conflicts and Corporate Governance
9- Group Process
10- Mergers and Acquisitions
11- Application of Real-Option Techniques to Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure (on
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Paperback, 224 Pages