Analytical Methods - Folge 6: Corporate Finance LMU Analytical Methods for Lawyers - Lehrstuhl für Bürgerliches Recht, Deutsches, Europ. und Int. Unternehmensrecht

Corporate Finance - What is corporate finance?; The fundamental accounting equation; Corporate finance and lawyers; The spectrum of financial products; Why do firms emerge?; The theory of the firm; Insourcing or outsourcing - make or buy?; Insourcing at General Motors; Why is there limited liability?; Separation of ownership and control; Shareholder coordination; Managers as agents for the stockholders; The case of Ernst Lieb; Diverging interests; Principal-agent theory; The case of Rajat Gupta; Countermeasures for principal-agent problems; The market for corporate control; Agent costs of debt; The efficient-market hypotheses; Behavioral finance; The dot-com bubble; Company valuation.