Professor of Financial Economics at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He is past president of the American Finance Association, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a principal of the Brattle Group, Inc., and a retired director of Entergy Corporation. His research is primarily concerned with the valuation of real and financial assets, corporate financial policy, and financial aspects of government regulation of business. He is the author of influential research papers on many topics, including adjusted present value (APV), rate of return regulation, pricing and capital allocation in insurance, real options, and moral hazard and information issues in capital structure decisions. Using a single elementary model Tirole brings out with refreshing ease an unsuspected unity and simplicity in a field that might otherwise be perceived as dishearteningly fragmented and complex. This masterful book will be a formidable teaching tool at the graduate level and an essential reference for research in corporate finance."—Marco Pagano, Professor of Economics, University of Naples Federico II Impeccably systematized. . . . Tirole's book will have a prominent place in my library, and I am sure that I shall have plenty of occasions to refer to its authority in the future. It fully deserves a 'buy' rating."—Rudi Bogni, Times Higher Education Supplement I'm currently working on my MBA. I graduated with a 4.0 and a 3.79 for my two undergraduate degrees; I work hard for my grades. In all my currently nine years of higher education I've never come across a more poorly written textbook. There is a lot of math involved, but formulas are rarely clearly given, and algebraic rearrangements of the formulas are interspersed without comment or warning. Examples are wordy and difficult to follow. The index misses many important concepts and the glossary refuses to include any sort of formula to assist with calculations.

Jean Tirole has provided the profession with its first comprehensive, advanced treatment of corporate finance theory. . . . [T]he overall result is far from idiosyncratic and it will have a major impact upon teaching and research in corporate finance."—David Webb, Economic Journal This is a remarkable book. Theoretical work in corporate finance over the past thirty or so years has yielded a bewildering array of individual models, yet Tirole manages to give a beautifully clear and unified treatment of the field. There is a real coherence both within and across the chapters, and one is in many places able to see the close connection between topics that are ordinarily treated as being distinct. The book will no doubt be the standard reference for researchers and students in corporate finance for many years to come."—Jeremy C. Stein, Harvard University To continue uninterrupted business services on a regular basis it is required to provide enough funds to the related parties. Managing working capital is one of the tough jobs of corporate managers as it required good planning of cash inflow and outflow. It can be managed from the long-term financing sources or short term sources. Internal Control PrincipleRisk management: understand why and how companies manage risk; cost of hedging; covered and uncovered interest rate parity. This new edition welcomes Alex Edmans to the author team, whose global authority and expertise in corporate governance, responsible business and behavioural finance have been invaluable in bolstering coverage of these topics. A new chapter is entirely dedicated to the subject of balancing shareholder value with promoting the interests of all stakeholders, the potential conflicts inherent in this, and how a responsible business should behave. Real options: understand what real options are and why they are important in project valuation; understand and calculate the source of option value; three types of real options: options to abandon/expand/wait. Corporate governance: separation of ownership and control; management incentives; management shareholdings and firm value; corporate governance.

There are 8 principles of corporate finance that every corporate finance manager should know before taking a financial decision. So that corporate can get the most out of the available monetary resources. The principles are: The field of corporate finance has developed rapidly and extensively in the last twenty years, but those who want to teach it face a barrier: the absence of a widely accepted textbook. Jean Tirole's book fills that gap. Applying his celebrated analytical and expositional skills, Tirole synthesizes and unifies the field in a clear and accessible manner, emphasizing particularly the connections between corporate finance and contract theory and the role of incentives and control in firms' financial decisions. The result is a book that will be an important resource for students and teachers alike."—Oliver Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University The book covers a wide range of aspects relevant to corporate finance, illustrated by examples and case studies. The text starts by explaining basic finance concepts of value, risk, and other principles. Then the issues become more and more complex, from project analysis and net present value calculations to debt policy and option valuation. Other discussed topics include stakeholder theory, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, principal–agent problems, credit risk, working capital management, etc. The book concludes with a discussion on the current limitations of corporate finance theory. Here, one of the world’s leading economists offers a lucid, unified, and comprehensive introduction to modern corporate finance theory. Jean Tirole builds his landmark book around a single model, using an incentive or contract theory approach. Filling a major gap in the field, The Theory of Corporate Finance is an indispensable resource for graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as researchers of corporate finance, industrial organization, political economy, development, and macroeconomics.understand and explain the relevance, facts and role of the payout policy, and calculate how payouts affect the valuation of securities