Market Abuse

From the author of How Paris Became Paris, a sweeping history of high finance, the origins of high fashion, and a pair of star-crossed lovers in 18th-century France.

This book reviews recent progress in the theory of oligopoly and market leadership and provides new results on the theory of Stackelberg competition and Nash competition with strategic investment under endogenous entry.

This year’s Financial Risk Outlook is focused on the risks arising from the events of the second half of 2007 and the less benign economic outlook that we expect over the next 18 months. The tighter financial conditions have led to the emergence of new risks and also highlighted some aspects of Priority Risks covered in the previous editions of the Financial Risk Outlook.

This book studies takeovers from the acquirer's perspective. More precisely, the book focuses on the UK's legal and regulatory treatment of the risks faced by the acquiring company shareholders in takeovers. The identified risks are categorized into two main groups - risks generated by managerial choices and regulatory or external risks.