The ART of Risk Management：Alternative Risk Transfer,Capital Structure, and the Convergence of Insurance and Capital Markets

By CHRISTOPHER L. CULP
Copyright © 2002 by Christopher L. Culp. All rights reserved.
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
PREFACE: COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO CORPORATION FINANCE xi
PART I
THE QUEST FOR OPTIMAL CAPITAL STRUCTURE 1
CHAPTER 1
The Nature of Financial Capital 3
Appendix 1-1: A Brief Introduction to Capital Theory 19
Appendix 1-2: A Review of Basic Option Concepts 26
CHAPTER 2
A Securities Perspective on Capital Structure 36
CHAPTER 3
When Is Capital Structure Irrelevant? 72
CHAPTER 4
Benefits and Costs of Debt and the “Trade-off Theory” of Optimal Capital Structure 85
CHAPTER 5
Asymmetric Information, Adverse Selection, and the “Pecking Order Theory”
of Optimal Capital Structure 116
CHAPTER 6
Distinguishing between Capital Structure Theories 127
CHAPTER 7
Risk and Signaling Capital 133
CHAPTER 8
Regulatory Capital 168