close this bookIt'sNo Gamble- The Economic and Social Benefits of Stock Markets
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View the documentPreface
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View the documentIntroduction
View the documentChapter 1:The Structure and Role of Stock Markets
View the documentChapter 2:The Role of the Stock Market in Corporate Governance
View the documentChapter 3:Mergers and Takeovers
View the documentChapter 4:The Efficiency of the Canadian Stock Market
View the documentChapter 5:Emerging Markets
View the documentChapter 6:Ethical Issues (or "How Much Can One Get Away With in the Stock Market?")
View the documentChapter 7:Whither Regulation?
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About the Authors

Lewis D. Johnson
Lew Johnson is a Professor at the School of Business, Queen's University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in investments and corporate finance. He is a graduate of the University of New Brunswick, Dalhousie University, Saint Mary's University, and the University of Toronto (where he received his Ph.D.)

Professor Johnson's research activities have principally focused on the valuation of financial assets and the operation of financial markets. He has published widely in academic and professional journals, and is a frequent commentator to the media about financial affairs.

 

Bohumír Pazderka
Bohumír Pazderka is an Associate Professor at the School of Business, Queen's University, where he teaches microeconomics and business-government relations. Born in Czechoslovakia, he graduated from the School of Economics in Bratislava and later obtained his Ph.D. from Queen's University.

Professor Pazderka's research interests include the economics of the pharmaceutical industry and the health care system, and the economics of research and development and innovation. He has done consulting work for various departments of the government of Canada and the province of Ontario, and has collaborated with the Thailand Development Research Institute in Bangkok. Recently, he has developed an interest in the problems of transition of the former centrally planned economies of eastern Europe to a market system and has given a number of lectures at the University of Economics in Slovakia.

Professor Pazderka has co-authored a textbook and two monographs, and has published a number of articles in academic journals. His most recent publication, with Professor Johnson, appeared in Managerial and Decision Economics


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