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Genre/Form: | Ressources Internet Case studies Livre électronique (Descripteur de forme) Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme) Livres numériques |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Yago, Glenn. Junk bonds. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1991 (DLC) 90035876 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Glenn Yago |
ISBN: | 9786610524334 6610524335 |
OCLC Number: | 300412515 |
Notes: | Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 3 oct. 2008). |
Description: | 1 ressource en ligne (xi, 249 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | The rhetoric and reality of junk bonds -- The origins of junk -- The role of corporate debt -- Analyzing high yield securities -- The impact of junk bonds on industrial performance -- High yield companies in focus -- Leveraged buyouts, corporate restructuring, and debt in the 1980s -- LBO companies -- Leveraged buyouts and industrial competitiveness -- Public policy responses to high yield bonds -- Shake-outs and showdowns in the capital market -- Toward a new economy. |
Responsibility: | Glenn Yago. |
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Abstract:
This is a study of the high yield bond market, popularly called junk bonds. The author has studied how companies that use junk bond financing compare in economic performance with their industry averages. This book shows that the performance of these companies was superior in the vast majority of cases.
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Three hearty, full-throated cheers for Glenn Yago's book and research. He dispassionately makes a strong case for passion-drenched junk bonds. I've long beleived that high-yield securities were the single most important stimjulus to American economic restructuring in the '80s. yago provides a masterly analysis in defense of such a view. * Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence * A clear and insightful view of the revolution that struck corporate America in the 1980s. The author is an academic with his feet planted firmly in the real world. * T. Boone Pickens, Jr. * Read more...
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