Corporate Finance and Financial Development: An Emerging Market Perspective on a Post-Crisis World

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Title" Corporate Finance and Financial Development: An Emerging Market Perspective on a Post-Crisis World"

Editors: Shame Mugova -Durban University of Technology South Africa
Joseph Akande -Namibia University of Science and Technology

May you please prepare a topic and abstract only, up to 300 words.
You can email your abstract to:

mugovas@gmail.com  cc akandeo.joseph@gmail.com

Deadline for submission 30 April 2020

None of the content should have been published or under consideration elsewhere.

Book series: The book will be published under book series “Contributions to Management Science” (www.springer.com/series/1505) which is indexed in SCOPUS.

Book overview

This book addresses key issues in corporate finance and explores them from a financial development and financial stability perspectives in emerging markets. Emerging economies are susceptible to rapidly changing financial sectors and products as well as financial upheavals. The global financial crisis reflects the growing interdependence of states and capital markets. Financial development and financial crisis have an impact on the financing of firms. Banking and financial markets stability reduces the risk in the real economy. The book analyses the critical issues in corporate finance and provides a unique combination of academic and industrial approaches

The book
- examines financial development issues that are unique to emerging markets
- investigates emerging markets corporate financial environment readiness for the 4th industrial revolution
- explore financial stability models applicability in emerging markets.


Key words
Financial Development
Regulation
Competition
Banking
Corporate finance
Financial stability
Financial inclusion
Fourth industrial revolution

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