Financing the Future: Market-Based Innovations for Growth (Wharton School Publishing--Milken Institute Series on Financial Innovations)
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (925 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 013701127X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mortgage and Credit Markets, Global Edge, Restructuring Regulation and Financial Institutions, and Beyond Junk Bonds. His research and projects have contributed to policy innovations fostering the democratization of capital to traditionally underserved markets and entrepreneurs in the United States and around the world. Yago is the coauthor of several books, including The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Allen received his
About the AuthorFranklin Allen is the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been on the faculty since 1980. He was a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His main areas of interest are corporate finance, asset pricing, financial innovation, comparative financial systems, and financial crises. Mortgage and Credit Markets, Global Edge, Restructuring Regulation and Financial Institutions, and Beyond Junk Bonds. He is also a visiting professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and directs the Koret-Milken Institute Fellows program. He is a coauthor, with Richard Brealey and Stewart Myers, of the eighth and ninth editio
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