Risk and Return in Transportation and Other US and Global Industries
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 20, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780792373568
Subjects: International finance; Transportation Economics; Investments & Securities - General; Water Transportation; Business / Economics / Finance; Transportation; Business/Economics; Ships & Shipbuilding - General; Merchant marine; Economics - General; International - Economics; Business & Economics / Economics / International; Business & Economics / Investments & Securities; Business & Economics-Economics - General; Business & Economics-International - Economics; United States; General; Finance; Rate of return
First sentence: The aim of this book is to investigate the risk - return behaviour of stock returns of the water transportation industry in the US1 along several dimensions, such as time; different (bull and bear) market conditions; different valuation models (single and multi-index models); and compare this behaviour with that of a number of other transportation and non transportation industries within the US economy.