“yakov amihud”

Liquidity and Asset Prices reviews the literature that studies the relationship between liquidity and asset prices. The authors review the theoretical literature that predicts how liquidity affects a security's required return and discuss the empirical connection between the two. Liquidity and Asset... More

As the financial services industry becomes increasingly international, the more narrowly defined and historically protected national financial markets become less significant. Consequently, financial institutions must achieve a critical size in order to compete. Bank Mergers & Acquisitions analyses ... More

This is a reprint of a previously published book. It consists of a series of papers by experts in the field on how the exchange rate volatility of the 1980s affected the financial policies of international firms.... More

This is a reprnit of a previously published book. it deals with changes on the U.S. financial market by the Securities Acts Amendment of 1975.... More

Etymology has been largely neglected since the beginning of this century. Professor Yakov Malkiel here sets out to rescue it from its fate. He enquires into the style, structure, presuppositions, and purposes of etymological enquiries over the last two centuries, and sets them against the practice o... More

Humans aren't perfect. Sometimes we get sick or behave irrationally, with negative consequences. Although much of our behavior is guided by various social institutions, this formal manner of regulation is less effective than a personally designed system of rational self-management. At a societal lev... More

Written in the early days of the Soviet Unionand using examples from Mark Twain, H.G. Wells, Charles Darwin, and their Russian counterpartsthis lively bestseller from the 1930s is filled with answers to basic questions about physics.... More