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Product Description Emphasizing modern fundamentals of the theory of finance, Corporate Finance, Eighth Canadian Edition, presents corporate finance as the collaboration of a small number of integrated and powerful institutions. Ross develops the central concepts of modern finance: arbitrage, net present value, efficient markets, agency theory, options, and the trade-off between risk and return, and uses them to explain corporate finance with a balance of theory and application. The Eighth Canadian Edition has been thoroughly updated to include current examples, mini-cases and problem material that will help students understand and apply the material. Meeting you and your students where you are. Using a personalized approach to teaching and learning, Connect is powered by adaptive technologies so your students learn more efficiently, retain more and achieve better outcomes and you can provide the engagement and expertise for more 'aha' moments. About the Author Randolph W. Westerfield is Dean Emeritus and the Charles B. Thornton Professor in Finance Emeritus at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. Professor Westerfield 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 20 years. He is a member of the board of trustees of Oaktree Capital mutual funds. His areas of expertise include corporate financial policy, investment management, and stock market price behavior.Gordon S. Roberts is Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Professor of Financial Services at the Schulich School of Business, York University. A winner of numerous teaching awards, his extensive experience includes finance classes for undergraduate and MBA students, executives, and bankers in Canada and internationally. Professor Roberts conducts research in corporate finance and banking. He has served on the editorial boards of several Canadian and international academic journals. Professor Roberts has been a consultant to a number of regulatory bodies responsible for the oversight of financial institutions and utilities.Jeffrey F. Jaffe has been a frequent contributor to finance and economic literature in such journals as the Quarterly Economic Journal, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Journal of Financial Economics, and The Financial Analysts Journal . His best-known work concerns insider trading, where he showed both that corporate insiders earn abnormal profits from their trades and that regulation has little effect on these profits. He has also made contributions concerning initial public offerings, the regulation of utilities, the behavior of market makers, the fluctuation of gold prices, the theoretical effect of inflation on the interest rate, the empirical effect of inflation on capital asset prices, the relationship between small-capitalization stocks and the January effect, and the capital structure decision.The late Stephen A. Ross was the Franco Modigliani Professor of Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the most widely published authors in finance and economics, Professor Ross was known for his work in developing the Arbitrage Pricing Theory as well as his substantial contributions to the discipline through his research on signaling, agency theory, option pricing, and the theory of the term structure of interest rates, among other topics. A past president of the American Finance Association, he also served as an associate editor of various academic and practitioner journals. He was a trustee of CalTech.