An Economic Overview of Corporate Institutions
- Corporate Governance
- Corporate Financing: Some Stylized Facts
- Historical development of corporate finance theories
- Economic theories as the basis
- Comparative overview of different economic systems and its impact on financial management practices
Corporate Financing and Agency Costs
- Outside Financing Capacity
- The Role of Net Worth: A Simple Model of Credit Rationing
- Debt Overhang
- Borrowing Capacity: The Equity Multiplier
- Related Models of Credit Rationing:
- Inside Equity and Outside Debt
- Determinants of Borrowing Capacity
- Pledge able Income
- Boosting the Ability to Borrow:
- Diversification and Its Limits
- The Costs and Benefits of Collateralization
- The Liquidity–Accountability Trade-off
- Inalienability of Human Capital
- Group Lending and Microfinance
- Sequential Project
- Modigliani–Miller and the Financial Structure Puzzle
- Debt Instruments
- Equity Instruments
- Financing Patterns
Liquidity and Risk Management, Free Cash Flow and Long-Term Finance
- The Maturity of Liabilities
- The Liquidity–Scale Trade-off
- Corporate Risk Management
- Endogenous Liquidity Needs, the Sensitivity of Investment to Cash Flow, and the Soft Budget
Corporate Financing under Asymmetric Information
- Implications of the Lemons Problem and of Market Breakdown
- Dissipative Signals
- Contract Design by an Informed Party:
- Optimal Contracting in the Privately-Known-Prospects Model
- The Debt Bias with a Continuum of Possible Incomes
- Signaling through Costly Collateral 271
- Short Maturities as a Signaling Device 271
- Formal Analysis of the Under pricing Problem
Money and Capital Markets
- Theoretical basis of risk and return debate
- Capital Markets- Theory and Operations
- Arbitrage Pricing Theory
- Asset Pricing Models
- Historical Development of Financial Markets in Pakistan
Islamic Banking and Finance
- Theoretical basis of Islamic Economics
- History and development of Islamic Banking
- Modes of Islamic Financing
- Current Status of Islamic Banking
- Future of Islamic Banking
- Islamic Perspective of Capital Markets
Dividend policy
- Dividend policy defined
- Forms of cash dividends
- Cash dividends vs. stock dividends
- Chronology of paying dividends
- Factors affecting dividend payments
- Setting a dividend policy
- Information content of dividends
- Clientele effect
- Stock dividends, splits and other forms of dividends
- Dividend theories
- Walter’s model
- Gordon’s model
- Modigliani and Miller argument
- Market imperfections
