Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy: European Edition, 3e

About David HillierMark GrinblattSheridan Titman

David Hillier is Professor of Finance at the University of Strathclyde teaches regularly in development programs for executives and has taught courses for a wide variety of professional clients including the World Bank and the National Health Service in the UK. It is part of the editorial board of several international journals of finance. University of California at Los Angeles Ph.D. Yale Mark Grinblatt is Professor of Finance at UCLAs Anderson School where he currently serves as chair of the Finance area and where he began his career in 1981. He is also a director on the board of Salomon Swapco Inc. a consultant to numerous firms and serves as an associate editor of Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. From 1987 to 1989 Professor Grinblatt was a visiting professor at the Wharton School and while on leave from UCLA in 1989 and 1990 he was a vice-president for Salomon Brothers Inc. valuing complex derivatives for the fixed income arbitrage trading group in the firm. Professor Grinblatt is a noted teacher at UCLA having been awarded teacher of the year in 1993 for UCLAs Fully-Employed MBA Program by a vote of the students. This award was based on his teaching of a course designed around early drafts of this textbook. Professor Grinblatts areas of expertise include investments performance evaluation of fund managers fixed income markets corporate finance and derivatives. The Walter W. McAllister Centennial Chair in Financial Services at the University of Texas. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a consultant to a number of firms. Professor Titman began his academic career in 1980 at UCLA where he served as the department chair for the finance group and as the vice chairman of the UCLA management school faculty. He designed executive education programs in corporate financial strategy at UCLA and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology based on material developed in this book.