

'The field of corporate finance has developed rapidly and extensively in the last twenty years, but those who want to teach it face a barrier: the absence of a widely accepted textbook.

His books include Financial Crises, Liquidity, and the International Monetary System (Princeton), The Theory of Industrial Organization, Game Theory (with Drew Fudenberg), and A Theory of Incentives in Procurement and Regulation (with Jean-Jacques Laffont). Jean Tirole, the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, is chairman of the Foundation Jean-Jacques Laffont at the Toulouse School of Economics, scientific director of Toulouse's Industrial Economics Institute, and annual visiting professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Setting a new milestone in the field, The Theory of Corporate Finance will be the authoritative text for years to come. And he places the corporation in its broader environment, both microeconomic and macroeconomic, and examines the two-way interaction between the corporate environment and institutions. He weaves empirical studies into the book's theoretical analysis. Corporate Finance Theory and Practice Second Edition Vishwanath S.R. I found it useful to cover some basics of principal agent theory before covering Tirole's material. The effects of liquidity risk and credit risk on bank stability: Evidence from the MENA region. Tirole conveys the organizing principles that structure the analysis of today's key management and public policy issues, such as the reform of corporate governance and auditing the role of private equity, financial markets, and takeovers the efficient determination of leverage, dividends, liquidity, and risk management and the design of managerial incentive packages. Filling a major gap in the field, The Theory of Corporate Finance is an indispensable resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as researchers of corporate finance, industrial organization, political economy, development, and macroeconomics. Jean Tirole builds his landmark book around a single model, using an incentive or contract theory approach. Here, one of the world's leading economists offers a lucid, unified, and comprehensive introduction to modern corporate finance theory. However, this progress has left in its wake a jumbled array of concepts and models that students are often hard put to make sense of. Whereas once the subject addressed mainly the financing of corporations-equity, debt, and valuation-today it also embraces crucial issues of governance, liquidity, risk management, relationships between banks and corporations, and the macroeconomic impact of corporations. The past twenty years have seen great theoretical and empirical advances in the field of corporate finance.
