Corporate Finance (12th Edition) – Ross/Westerfield/Jaffe/Jordan – eBook

Author(s)

Bradford Jordan

Dr. Bradford D. Jordan is Professor of Finance and holder of the Richard W. and Janis H. Furst Endowed Chair in Finance in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. Jotdan received a BSBA and PhD in Finance from the University of Florida. He joined the Gatton College in 1997 after serving on the faculties of the University of Georgia and the University of Missouri. Professor Bradford specializes in financial asset valuation and corporate finance. He has published numerous articles in leading finance journals and has received a variety of research awards.

Professor Jordan is coauthor of Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 9th edition and Essentials of Corporate Finance 5th edition, two of the most widely used business finance textbooks in the world, along with Fundamentals of Investments: Valuation and Management 6e, a widely used investments textbook. Jordane is an associate editor of  Financial Review and The Journal of Financial Research and a past-President of the Southern Finance Association.

Jeffrey Jaffe

Dr. Jeffrey F. Jaffe is currently an Associate Professor of Finance and the Wharton School of Business, University of Penn. He has been at the Wharton school since 1973.

Dr. Jaffer got his BA from the University of Chicago in 1968, MBA, in 1971 and Ph.D. in 1972, also from the University of Chicago. He got numerous awards including the Outstanding Professor Award, Evening School in 1990.

Randolph Westerfield

Dr. Randolph W. Westerfield is the Charles B. Thornton Professor of Finance and the Dean Emeritus of the University of Southern California's (USC) Marshall School of Business. He came to USC from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he was the chairman of the finance department and a member of the finance faculty for over 20 years.

Stephen Ross

Professor Stephen A. Ross is presently the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. One of the most widely published authors in economics and finance, Dr. Ross is recognized for his work in developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory and his substantial contributions to the discipline through his research in agency theory, signaling, option pricing, and the theory of the term structure of interest rates, among other topics. A past president of the American Finance Association, Ross currently serves as an associate editor of several academic and practitioner journals. He is a director of the College Retirement Equity Fund (CREF), a trustee of CalTech, and Freddie Mac. He is also the co-chairman of Roll and Ross Asset Management Corporation.