Analytical Methods - Folge 6: Corporate Finance

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.