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Introduction

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This first chapter provides an overview on financial economics and how to study it: you will learn how we have designed this textbook and how you can use it efficiently; we will give you an overview of the essence of financial economics and some of its central ideas; we will finally summarize how research in financial economics is done, what methods are used and how they interact with each other.

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  1. ISB, University of Zurich, Plattenstrasse 32, 8032, Zurich, Switzerland

    Professor Dr. Thorsten Hens

  2. Fachbereich IV, University of Trier, Universitätsring 15, 54286, Trier, Germany

    Prof. Dr. Marc Oliver Rieger

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Hens, T., Rieger, M.O. (2007). Introduction. In: Financial Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36148-0_1

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