Handbook of the Economics of Finance: Asset Pricing

The 12 articles in this second of two parts condense recent advances on investment vehicles, performance measurement and evaluation, and risk management into a coherent springboard for future research.  Written by world leaders in asset pricing research, they present scholarship about the 2008 financial crisis in contexts that highlight both continuity and divergence in research.  For those who seek authoritative perspectives and important details, this volume shows how the boundaries of asset pricing have expanded and at the same time have grown sharper and more inclusive.

Offers analyses by top scholars of recent asset pricing scholarshipExplains how the 2008 financial crises affected theoretical and empirical researchCovers core and newly developing fields

1. Advances in Consumption-Based Asset Pricing: Empirical Tests (S. Ludvigson) 2. Bond Pricing and the Macroeconomy (G. Duffee) 3. Investment Performance: A Review and Synthesis (W. Ferson) 4. Mutual Funds (N. Elton, M. Gruber) 5. Hedge Funds (W. Fung, D Hsieh) 6. Financial Risk Measurement for Financial Risk Management (T. Andersen, T. Bollerslev, P. Christoffersen, F. Diebold) 7. Bubbles, Financial Crises, and Systemic Risk (M. Brunnermeier, M. Oehmke) 8. Market Liquidity—Theory and Empirical Evidence (D. Vayanos, J. Wang) 9. Credit Derivatives (J. Hull, A. White) 10. Household Finance: An Emerging Field (L. Guiso, P. Sodini) 11. The Behavior of Individual Investors (B. Barber, T. Odean) 12. Risk Pricing over Alternative Investment Horizons (L. Hansen)