Valuation Approaches and Metrics focuses on the theory and practice of valuation of companies and stocks, providing an invaluable overview of the topic from both a practical and scholarly perspective. Valuation Approaches and Metrics reviews the finance literature on valuation and presents three approaches to valuation: · discounted cash flow valuation relating the value of an asset to the present value of expected future cash flows on that asset. · liquidation and accounting valuation built around valuing the existing assets of a firm using accounting estimates of value or "book value" · relative valuation estimating the value of an asset by looking at the pricing of 'comparable' assets relative to a common variable like earnings, cash flows, book value or sales. Valuation Approaches and Metrics should be required reading for both finance practitioners and researchers.

Valuation Approaches and Metrics: A Survey of the Theory and Evidence (Foundations and Trends(r) in Finance)

Business & Money

Damodaran, Aswath

Economics

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Image-based rendering (IBR) is unique in that it requires computer graphics, computer vision, and image processing to join forces to solve a common goal, namely photorealistic rendering through the use of images. IBR as an area of research has been around for about ten years, and substantial progress has been achieved in effectively capturing, representing, and rendering scenes. Image-Based Rendering surveys the various techniques used in the area. It shows that representations and rendering techniques can differ radically, depending on design decisions related to ease of capture, use of geometry, accuracy of geometry (if used), number and distribution of source images, degrees of freedom for virtual navigation, and expected scene complexity. Image-Based Rendering is an invaluable resource for anyone planning or conducting research in this particular area, or computer graphics or vision generally. The essentials of the topic are presented in an accessible manner and an extensive bibliography guides towards further reading.

Image-Based Rendering (Foundations and Trends(r) in Computer Graphics and Vision)

Computers & Technology

Shum, Heung-Yeung

Kang, Sing Bing

Li, Yin

Tong, Xin

Computer Science

Copula Modeling explores the copula approach for econometrics modeling of joint parametric distributions. Copula Modeling demonstrates that practical implementation and estimation is relatively straightforward despite the complexity of its theoretical foundations. An attractive feature of parametrically specific copulas is that estimation and inference are based on standard maximum likelihood procedures. Thus, copulas can be estimated using desktop econometric software. This offers a substantial advantage of copulas over recently proposed simulation-based approaches to joint modeling. Copulas are useful in a variety of modeling situations including financial markets, actuarial science, and microeconometrics modeling. Copula Modeling provides practitioners and scholars with a useful guide to copula modeling with a focus on estimation and misspecification. The authors cover important theoretical foundations. Throughout, the authors use Monte Carlo experiments and simulations to demonstrate copula properties

Copula Modeling: An Introduction for Practitioners (Foundations and Trends(r) in Econometrics)

Trivedi, Pravin K.

Zimmer, David M.

Corporate Entrepreneurship provides a thorough review of the literature on this topic and presents a model based on this literature. Corporate entrepreneurship (CE) is increasingly being recognized as a legitimate path to high levels of organizational performance. CE has been promoted in organizations for many reasons including as a growth strategy, to increase profitability, for strategic renewal, innovation, international success, and to develop competitive advantage. Despite the potential positive effects of CE, the theoretical and empirical knowledge about CE and the entrepreneurial behavior on which it is based require greater attention. While there is a broadly held belief in the need for and value of entrepreneurial action on the part of established organizations, much remains to be revealed about how CE strategy is enacted in organizational settings. Corporate Entrepreneurship presents a model of CE based on the extant literature and research. It reviews the empirical and conceptual research that substantiates the many components of the model and describes a corporate entrepreneurship strategy based on that model.

Corporate Entrepreneurship (Foundations and Trends(r) in Entrepreneurship)

Kuratko, Donald F.

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) channels provide an abstract and unified representation of different physical communication systems, ranging from multi-antenna wireless channels to wireless digital subscriber line (DSL) systems. They have the key property that several data streams can be simultaneously established. MIMO Transceiver Design via Majorization Theory presents an up-to-date unified mathematical framework for the design of point-to-point MIMO transceivers with channel state information (CSI) at both sides of the link according to an arbitrary cost function as a measure of the system performance. In addition, the framework embraces the design of systems with given individual performance on the data streams. MIMO Transceiver Design via Majorization Theory is an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners involved in the state-of-the-art design of MIMO-based communication systems.

Mimo Transceiver Design Via Majorization Theory (Foundations and Trends(r) in Communications and Information)

Palomar, Daniel P.

Jiang, Yi

Network Coding Applications looks at how ideas from network coding can have an impact on a number of new applications. Network coding is an elegant and novel technique introduced at the turn of the millennium to improve network throughput and performance. It is expected to be a critical technology for networks of the future. Today, more and more researchers and engineers ask what network coding is, what its benefits are, and how much it costs to design and operate networks implementing network coding. Network Coding Applications deals with wireless and content distribution networks, considered to be the most likely applications of network coding, and it also reviews emerging applications of network coding such as network monitoring and management. Multiple unicasts, security, networks with unreliable links, and quantum networks are also addressed. In tandem with the previous companion text on the theoretical foundations of network coding, Network Coding Applications provides the reader with a comprehensive state-of-the-art of this fast evolving research area.

Network Coding Applications (Foundations and Trends(r) in Networking)

Soljanin, Emina

Fragouli, Christian

Cyclic Division Algebras: A Tool for Space-Time Coding provides a tutorial introduction to the algebraic tools involved in the design of codes based on division algebras. The different design criteria involved are illustrated, including the constellation shaping, the information lossless property, the non-vanishing determinant property and the diversity multiplexing tradeoff. Finally complete mathematical background underlying the construction of the Golden code and the other Perfect Space-Time block codes is given.

Cyclic Division Algebras: A Tool for Space-Time Coding (Foundations and Trends(r) in Communications and Information)

Viterbo, Emanuele

Belfiore, Jean-Claude

Oggier, Frédérique

Accounting Disclosure and Real Effects presents a new approach to the study of accounting measurement and disclosure that challenges the existing accounting literature. This new approach - the "real effects" perspective - argues that how firms' economic transactions, earnings, and capital flows are measured and reported to the capital markets has substantial effects on the firms' real decisions and on the allocation of resources in the economy in general. Accounting Disclosure and Real Effects should be required reading for accounting regulators and corporate managers who have to deal with alternative accounting standards and disclosure requirements. This landmark survey is the only source to focus on the real effects approach to the study of disclosure.

Accounting Disclosure and Real Effects (Foundations and Trends(r) in Accounting)

Kanodia, Chandra

The Equity Premium Puzzle reviews the literature on this phenomenon from the original papers by Mehra and Prescott to the present. The author shows that the equity premium -- the return earned by a broad market index in excess of that earned by a relatively risk-free security -- is not a premium for bearing non-diversifiable risk. The Equity Premium Puzzle · documents the historical equity premium in the United States and in selected countries with significant capital markets. · examines the question, 'Is the equity premium a premium for bearing non-diversifiable risk?' · addresses risk and preference based explanations of the equity premium · reviews the nascent literature that takes as given the findings in Mehra and Prescott (1985) and tries to account for the equity premium by factors other than aggregate risk. The Equity Premium Puzzle offers a birds-eye view of the literature explained by one of the authors of the pioneering work in this area. This is must reading for all students and scholars of finance and macroeconomics.

The Equity Premium Puzzle: A Review (Foundations and Trends(r) in Finance)

Mehra, Rajnish

An Introduction to Frames is an introduction to redundant signal representations called frames. These representations have recently emerged as yet another powerful tool in the signal processing toolbox, spurred by a host of recent applications requiring some level of redundancy. It asks the question: Why and where should one use frames? And answers emphatically: Anywhere where redundancy is a must. It then goes on to discuss a host of applications that richly illustrate that answer.  An Introduction to Frames is geared primarily toward engineering students and those without extensive mathematical training. It is also intended to help researchers and practitioners decide whether frames are the right tool for their application.

Introduction to Frames (Foundations and Trends(r) in Signal Processing)

Kovacevic, Jelena

Chebira, Amina

Graphics & Design

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