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This category is for books about stock traders, stock trading and financial institutions, or in which these are important to the work, and where the genre is either fiction (possibly, Roman à clef) or, more often, creative nonfiction
In economics, a transaction cost is a cost incurred when making an economic trade when participating in a market. [1]The idea that transactions form the basis of economic thinking was introduced by the institutional economist John R. Commons in 1931.
Corporate finance is an area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, and the capital structure of businesses, the actions that managers take to increase the value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and analysis used to allocate financial resources.
Following is a glossary of stock market terms. All or none or AON: in investment banking or securities transactions, "an order to buy or sell a stock that must be executed in its entirely, or not executed at all". [1] Ask price or Ask: the lowest price a seller of a stock is willing to accept for a share of that given stock. [2]
The concept of "two sets of books" refers to the practice of keeping two sets of accounting ledgers ("books").In colloquial terms, this practice may refer to fraudulent behavior, i.e. attempting to hide or disguise financial transactions from outsiders by having a falsified set of records for official use and another for internal recordkeeping.
Principles of Corporate Finance is a reference work on the corporate finance theory edited by Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, Franklin Allen, and Alex Edmans. [1] [2] The book is one of the leading texts that describes the theory and practice of corporate finance. It was initially published in October 1980 and now is available in its 14th edition.
Market microstructure is a branch of finance concerned with the details of how exchange occurs in markets.While the theory of market microstructure applies to the exchange of real or financial assets, more evidence is available on the microstructure in the financial field due to the availability of transactions data from them.
The exchange of goods or services, with or without money, is a transaction. [1] Market participants or economic agents consist of all the buyers and sellers of a good who influence its price, which is a major topic of study of economics and has given rise to several theories and models concerning the basic market forces of supply and demand.