Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy: European Edition, 2/e
David Hillier,
University of Strathclyde Mark Grinblatt,
UCLA Anderson School of Management Sheridan Titman,
University of Texas at Austin
ISBN: 0077129423 Copyright year: 2013
About the Authors
David Hillier is Vice-Dean and Professor of Finance at the University of Strathclyde Business School,
Glasgow. Strathclyde Business School is triple accredited (EQUIS, AMBA, and AACSB), an achievement held by fewer than 1 per cent of the universities in the world. It is also one of the top-performing research schools in the UK, as evidenced by the most recent Research Assessment Exercise in 2009.
Professor Hillier has published a wide range of peer-reviewed academic articles on corporate governance, corporate fi nance, insider trading, asset pricing, precious metals, auditing, and market microstructure. His
research has attracted an ANBAR citation and a best paper prize from one of the top fi nance and management
journals in South East Asia, and he has been ranked in the top 3 per cent most prolifi c fi nance
researchers in the world over the period 1958–2008. He is on the editorial board and reviews for many of
the world’s top fi nance journals. Professor Hillier is an established teacher of executive programmes, and
has conducted courses for a variety of professional clients, including the World Bank and the UK National
Health Service. Finally, he is a co-author of the European editions of Corporate Finance (McGraw-Hill,
2010) and Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (McGraw-Hill, 2011).
Mark Grinblatt is Professor of Finance at the University of California, Los Angeles, Anderson School of
Management. He has also acted as a consultant to numerous fi rms and as associate editor for the Journal
of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and the Review of Financial Studies.
Sheridan Titman is Professor of Finance at the University of Texas. He is also a research associate of the
National Bureau of Economic Research, and has worked in a consulting capacity.
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