a discussion of Germany’s Neuer Markt, designed for stocks of new growth companies in Chapter 1 • a discussion of the Internet company boom and bust and the reasons for it in Chapter 3 • a short section on private equity in Chapter 3 • a discussion of the collapse of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) and the risks associated with arbitrage in Chapter 7 • a discussion about the lessons learned from the fate of LTCM in Chapter 7 • a new section about market frictions and their implications for derivative securities pricing and the management of derivatives portfolios in Chapter 7 • an expanded section on covered interest rate parity in Chapter 8 • more in-depth discussion of the equivalent annual benefit approach in Chapter 10 • an expanded discussion of the distinction between firm betas and project betas, and several new explanations for why these might differ, in Chapter 11 • a discussion of Amgen and why growth companies with near horizon research costs and deferred profitability of projects generated by that research tend to have high betas, in Chapter 11 • an expanded discussion of pitfalls when using comparisons with the riskadjusted discount rate method in Chapter 11 • a completely fresh approach to the understanding of WACC adjusted cost of capital formulas in Chapter 13 • step-by-step recipes for doing a valuation with the risk-adjusted discount rate method in Chapters 11 and 13 • a rewritten discussion of the tax benefits of internal financing in Chapter 15 • a new section on project financing in Chapter 16 • a revised discussion of the Miller-Rock dividend signalling model in Chapter 19 • an analysis of California’s 2000–01 electricity crisis in Chapter 21 • a retrospective on how merger activity has changed since the 1st edition in Chapter 21

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