1. Advances in Consumption-Based Asset Pricing: Empirical Tests (S. Ludvigson) 2. Bond Pricing and the Macroeconomy (G. Duffee) 3. Investment Performance: A Review and Synthesis (W. Ferson) 4. Mutual Funds (N. Elton, M. Gruber) 5. Hedge Funds (W. Fung, D Hsieh) 6. Financial Risk Measurement for Financial Risk Management (T. Andersen, T. Bollerslev, P. Christoffersen, F. Diebold) 7. Bubbles, Financial Crises, and Systemic Risk (M. Brunnermeier, M. Oehmke) 8. Market Liquidity-Theory and Empirical Evidence (D. Vayanos, J. Wang) 9. Credit Derivatives (J. Hull, A. White) 10. Household Finance: An Emerging Field (L. Guiso, P. Sodini) 11. The Behavior of Individual Investors (B. Barber, T. Odean) 12. Risk Pricing over Alternative Investment Horizons (L. Hansen)

"A scholarly compendium of contemporary research in Financial Economics which will be of great value not only for researchers in finance but also for researchers in many other of economics including money and banking, growth and development, international economics, public finance, and macro economics." Edward C. Prescott, Nobel Laureate, Arizona State University "This Handbook provides a timely and comprehensive account of the state-of-the-art of Financial Economics, including corporate finance and asset pricing, written by many of the leading names in their respective fields." Harry M.Markowitz, Nobel Laureate, University of California, San Diego