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PREFACE COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO CORPORATION FINANCE.
PART I: THE QUEST FOR OPTIMAL CAPITAL STRUCTURE.
CHAPTER 1: The Nature of Financial Capital.
Appendix 1-1: A Brief Introduction to Capital Theory.
Appendix 1-2: A Review of Basic Option Concepts.
CHAPTER 2: A Securities Perspective on Capital Structure.
CHAPTER 3: When Is Capital Structure Irrelevant?
CHAPTER 4: Benefits and Costs of Debt and the "Trade-off Theory" of Optimal Capital Structure.
CHAPTER 5: Asymmetric Information, Adverse Selection, and the "Pecking Order Theory" of Optimal Capital Structure.
CHAPTER 6: Distinguishing between Capital Structure Theories.
CHAPTER 7: Risk and Signaling Capital.
CHAPTER 8: Regulatory Capital.
PART II: CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND RISK MANAGEMENT.
CHAPTER 9: A Vocabulary of Risk.
CHAPTER 10: Risk Management as a Process.
CHAPTER 11: Risk Management and Capital Structure.
PART III: CLASSICAL RISK TRANSFORMATION PRODUCTS.
CHAPTER 12: Commercial Banking Products.
CHAPTER 13: Derivatives.
CHAPTER 14: Asset Disposition and Securitized Products.
CHAPTER 15: Insurance.
CHAPTER 16: Reinsurance.
PART IV: ALTERNATIVE RISK TRANSFER PRODUCTS.
CHAPTER 17: Alternative Risk Finance vs. Alternative Risk Transfer.
CHAPTER 18: Alternative Risk Finance: Self-Insurance, Captives, and Captivelike Structures.
CHAPTER 19: Alternative Risk Finance: Finite Risk Products and Solutions.
CHAPTER 20: Integrated Multiline and Multitrigger Alternative Risk Transfer Products.
CHAPTER 21: Committed Capital and Guarantees.
CHAPTER 22: Alternative Risk Securitizations and Securitized Products.
PART V: PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR WOULD-BE ARTISTS.
CHAPTER 23: USAA Prime: Choice Cats for Diversifying Investors (Morton N. Lane).
CHAPTER 24: Emerging Role of Patent Law in Risk Finance (J. B. Heaton).
CHAPTER 25: Weather Derivatives or Insurance? Considerations for Energy Companies (Andrea S. Kramer).
CHAPTER 26: Convergence of Insurance and Investment Banking: Representations and Warranties Insurance and Other Insurance Products Designed to Facilitate Corporate Transactions (Theodore A. Boundas and Teri Lee Ferro).
BIBLIOGRAPHY.
INDEX.