This eighth volume in the series covers a variety of topics in financial planning and forecasting, including: the change in earnings response coefficient around dividend omissions; estimating spin-off values; and, forbearance, deposit insurance, and the market value of savings and loan associations.

Contains thirteen papers that deal with the issue of Financial Analysis, Planning and Forecasting, which are classified into two major groups - Risk Analysis and Financial Evaluation Models. In addition to these two groups, this title contains a paper using survey approach to banking operations.

There are ten papers in this volume. They are: An Empirical Examination of The Intraday Return Volatility Process - this paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the distributional and time-series properties of intraday returns. The purpose is to determine whether a GARCH model that allows for time variance in a process can adequately represent intraday return volatility. The Valuation of New Product Introduction Under Uncertain Competition: A Real Option Approach - this paper investigates how a stochastic competition process in a two-factor real option model could affect the value of...

This seventh volume in the series covers a variety of topics in financial planning and forecasting.

Part of a series which focuses on advances in futures and options research, this volume discusses a variety of topics in the field.