This is an excerpt from the 4-volume dictionary of economics, a reference book which aims to define the subject of economics today. 1300 subject entries in the complete work cover the broad themes of economic theory. This extract concentrates on finance.

Finance, S.A.Ross; financial intermediaries, J.Tobin; agency costs, C.W.Smith Jr; arbitrage, S.A.Ross and P.H.Dybvig; argitrage pricing theory, G.Huberman; asset pricing, T.E.Copeland and J.F.Weston; Louis Bachelier, B.B.Mandelbrot; backwardation, M.Kawai; capital asset pricing model, M.J.Brennan; continuous-time stochastic models, R.C.Merton; continous-time stochastic processes, C.F.Huang; dividend policy, J.A.Brickley and J.J.McConnell; efficient market hypothesis, B.G.Malkiel; financial markets, N.H.Hakansson; futures markets, hedging and speculation, D.M.Newbery; futures trading, H.S.Houthakker; gearing, J.S.S.Edwards; hedging G.Connor; interest rates, J.E.Ingersoll, Jr; intertemporal portfolio theory and asset pricing, D.H.Breeden; mean-variance analysis, H.M.Markowitz; option pricing theory, J.E.Ingersoll; options, R.C.Merton; organization theory, T.Marschak; portfolio analysis, N.H.Hakansson; present value, S.F.LeRoy; retention ratio, A.Cosh; stochastic optimal control, A.G.Malliaris; takeovers and the stock market, A.Hughes and A.Singh; term structure of interest rates, B.G.Malkiel.