An updated version of the must-have reference on the valuation of small businesses The first edition of A Basic Guide for Valuing a Company provided the ideal resource for novice buyers and sellers. Written by a management consultant who has valued more than 1,000 small businesses, this nuts-and-bolts guide covered all the bases, from the difference between publicly traded and privately held firms to tangible and intangible assets. Now, this updated edition includes new information on valuing start-up technology and dot.com businesses. Addit…

"Advanced Option Pricing Models" details specific conditions under which current option pricing models fail to provide accurate price estimates and then shows option traders how to construct improved models for better pricing in a wider range of market conditions. Model-building steps cover options pricing under conditional or marginal distributions, using polynomial approximations and "curve fitting," and compensating for mean reversion. The authors also develop effective prototype models that can be put to immediate use, with real-time exampl…

It is now 25 years since the first edition of this book was written, and the objectives of the fifth edition remain the same as those of the first edition, that is to provide "an introduction to and general background reading for the subject of property valuation". It is directed not just at would be surveyors and valuers, but at all those who may be interested in getting an understanding of property valuation.

Getting to the real value of a business and assessing what its shares are really worth suddenly looks less clear cut. In an investment environment that is extremely challenging even for experienced City professionals, doing your homework has never been more important. And with the current accounting scandals rocking confidence and the markets being able to accurately value copmpanies, stock has just taken on a whole new dimension. The book goes beyond investment ratios to explore what these ratios tell us about the company as an investment or …

This book shows how current and recent market prices convey information about the probability distributions that govern future prices. Moving beyond purely theoretical models, Stephen Taylor applies methods supported by empirical research of equity and foreign exchange markets to show how daily and more frequent asset prices, and the prices of option contracts, can be used to construct and assess predictions about future prices, their volatility, and their probability distributions. Stephen Taylor provides a comprehensive introduction to the dy…

This text presents early theoretical models and the developments of capital asset pricing models to measure portfolio risk. It also provides an analysis of the important anomalies and empirical tests of asset pricing models as true measures of risk.

Asset pricing lies at the heart of financial economics, being not only the foundation of every other field in this subject area, but also having prime relevance for practical decision-making. For this two-volume collection the editor has selected some of the most influential articles which have been published on this topic since the 1970s. These papers offer an overview of the theories of asset pricing, an investigation and critique of the empirical tests applied to these theories and an examination of four particular models: the linear risk to…

Every day, the financial markets bravely price trillions of dollars in such risky securities as stocks, bonds, options, futures, and derivatives. The systematic determination of their values--asset pricing--has developed dramatically in the last few years due to advances in financial theory and econometrics. In one of the most highly anticipated books in financial economics, John Cochrane unifies and brings this science up to date for the benefit of advanced students and professionals. Cochrane traces the pricing of all assets back to a singl…

The theory of asset pricing has grown markedly more sophisticated in the last two decades, with the application of powerful mathematical tools such as probability theory, stochastic processes and numerical analysis. The main goal of "Asset Pricing -Discrete Time Approach" is to provide a systematic exposition, with practical applications, of the no-arbitrage theory for asset pricing in financial engineering in the framework of a discrete time approach. Useful as a textbook on financial asset pricing, this book will also appeal to practitioners …

The modern field of asset pricing asks for sound pricing models grounded on the theory of financial economics as well as for accurate estimation techniques when it comes to empirical inferences of the specified model. This book provides a canonical framework that shows how to bridge the gap between the continuous-time pricing practice in financial engineering and the capital market data inevitably only available at discrete-time intervals. Starting with a comprehensive treatment of the particular stochastic modeling and econometric estimation f…