Capital Markets in Malaysia

This book is the result of scholarly collaboration of several doctoral students and senior professors across several countries over several years to produce peer-reviewed-quality literature for the teaching of Finance in Malaysia and in emerging economies. The book can also be used in any university offering specialized courses on Emerging Market Finance. The book in its current version covers: - Introduction to Asian Emerging Markets - Theories on Efficiency, Asset Pricing and Derivatives - Selected Issues in Banking - Issues in Financial Management - Issues in Investment Management - Issues in Auditing and Corporate Governance Teachers of diploma and degree programs in accounting, banking and finance - in general financial economics - in tertiary institutions will find the chapters in this book to be excellent and timely sources to add local content to the teaching of these subjects. Although all Malaysian-based universities teach finance at some levels, it was quite difficult to add local content because there were not many peer-reviewed-quality research findings in a single source on this important emerging market. Malaysia's share market is rated as among the top-20 investible markets by the Irwin Guide to Capital Markets. The authors of this book have made scrupulous attempts to ensure that the articles that appears as edited chapters have been carefully peer-reviewed and subsequently reviewed by the publisher's review process as well. The selected topics are the ones that are widely included in the official curricula of leading universities in Malaysia (and also in other countries if an emerging markets subject is offered) , hence their inclusion was thought appropriate. To enable the instructors to incorporate the rich body of findings relevant to emerging market finance to their teaching of these subjects, this book comes with an instructor's guide which includes powerpoint slides, questions and suggested answers.