Economic Foundations for Finance
From Main Street to Wall Street
Authors: Hens, Thorsten, Elmiger, Sabine
Free Preview- Provides a systematic analysis of market prices from the perspective of households and firms to help readers to gain a more integrated view of financial markets
- Illustrates real-world examples to help readers to apply basic economic tools in discussions of highly topical issues in economics and finance
- Includes numerous exercises at the end of the book providing the reader with a comprehension check
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- About this Textbook
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This book provides readers with essential concepts from financial economics for an integrated study of the financial system and the real economy. It discusses how long-term market prices are determined and affected by population growth, technological progress and non-renewable resources. The meaning of market prices is examined from the perspective of households and from the perspective of firms. The book therefore connects different fields of finance, which usually focus only on either the households’ side or the firms’ side.
- About the authors
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Thorsten Hens is a Swiss Finance Institute Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Zurich as well as an adjunct professor at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen and the University of Lucerne. He studied in Bonn and Paris and previously held positions in Stanford and Bielefeld.
Sabine Elmiger is a research associate at the University of Zurich and visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town. She studied at the ETH Zurich and obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Zurich.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-3
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Financial Markets and Institutions
Pages 5-9
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The Basic Economic Model
Pages 11-24
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Extension of the Model to Capital
Pages 25-45
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Extension of the Model to an Infinite Horizon
Pages 47-78
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Economic Foundations for Finance
- Book Subtitle
- From Main Street to Wall Street
- Authors
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- Thorsten Hens
- Sabine Elmiger
- Series Title
- Springer Texts in Business and Economics
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-05427-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-05427-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-05425-0
- Series ISSN
- 2192-4333
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 178
- Number of Illustrations
- 27 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
- Topics