Stephen J Brown Książki

Thoroughly updated to reflect recent research and includes many additional examples. Rigorous, yet not overly complex, it makes extensive use of empirical examples and evidence to keep investment theory and analysis from becoming too abstract for students to grasp. The Fourth Edition includes thorough, up-to-date coverage of multi-index models and international diversification as well as new material on portfolio management that examines not only the different types of investment strategies used, but the underlying philosophies behind those strategies. Instructor's Manual available.

Debate about deregulation has focused considerable attention on the pricing policies of public utilities. Much work has been done by economists on this subject, and in this book the results of that research are presented and made accessible to students of economics. The main subject is the policy to be followed by a regulated monopoly, but the analysis is broadened to take account of a fringe of competitive suppliers, making it relevant to electric utilities and local telephone companies in the US, to PTT's in Europe, to the possible privatisatibn of telecommunications in Australia, and to the telecommunications structure in the UK where the dominant supplier has recently been privatised. The book gives a unified and simplified exposition of the modern theory of efficient pricing which is not available elsewhere. The theoretical discussion is supplemented by numerical simulation comparing Fully Distributed Cost Pricing, Ramsey Pricing, and Optimal Non-uniform Pricing.