Developments in Finance Theory
综述金融理论近年重要进展,梳理核心主题及其关系,分析实证方法,为金融决策提供概念框架,适合金融学者和从业者快速把握理论脉络。
* Developments in finance theory in recent years have been so substantial that another assessment of our progress and prospects should be useful. I do not know whether anyone else benefits from the exercise, but I find it helpful periodically to try to think through a conceptual framework for approaching financial decisions. When I now review my Scope and Methodology book [108], I find that much seems obsolete, but that much also continues to be relevant. The New Themes [107] have continued to evolve along the lines then projected. Financial Theory and Corporate Policy [21] represents a synthesis of important developments, related empirical tests, and their implications for financial decision-making. This paper aims to be complementary to Hakansson [46], whose survey emphasizes issues of financial economics. My review will seek to: 1) summarize important themes and their relationships, 2) indicate their larger context in finance theory, 3) analyze the methodology of the related empirical