Finance, accounting and economics references

Antitrust should rest on the economics of efficiency, not on protecting competitors.

How futures, options and swaps work and how to price and hedge them.

The economic criteria for setting regulated utility rates.

The standard cost accounting text, built around costs that serve managers' decisions.

Stigum's institutional bible of bills, repo, CP and Fed funds.

The standard reference on every kind of bond, its analysis and its management.

The economics of shipping: the market cycle, freight rates and vessel costs.

The standard text on bonds: instruments, valuation, risk and portfolio strategy.

How the music business works in contracts and money, from a music lawyer.

Predicting corporate failure with models like the Z-score, and how bankruptcy works.

Lease structures, residual values and tax treatment of equipment leasing.

The standard text on non-recourse financing of infrastructure projects.

A reference on municipal bonds: credit analysis, structures and analytics.

Retail-investor guide with the clearest chapters on buying munis.

Real estate finance from property law to mortgages, underwriting and valuation.

The publishing-side reference on royalty streams and licensing income.

How the repo market works as the way securities positions are financed.

The standard academic text on airline economics.

How project finance deals are structured, with the theory and worked cases.

The closest thing to a cat bond reference; several chapters on structure and triggers.

How convertible bonds are priced, structured and risk-managed.

Extends the same treatment to CoCos and other hybrids.

How funders back claims in international arbitration, and how it is regulated.

How litigation funders raise money, pick cases, structure deals and earn returns.

Second edition 2017 with Mark Etzkorn, titled A Complete Guide to the Futures Market.

Performance data on over 6,000 stocks, 7,000 bonds and 700 mutual funds.

Plain-language guide to reading the three financial statements.

How to get a mutual fund off the ground: what to do, what it costs, how it works.

LSTA reference on how leveraged loans are originated, syndicated and traded.

A trader's technical primer on oil barrels, grades, refining and pricing.

How the US economy really works, explained for lay readers without jargon.

Short procedural handbook for funded claims in England.

English-law practitioner text on funding agreements.

How to analyse and invest in small community banks that institutions ignore.

The only book-length treatment of aircraft leasing; a textbook.

Ethiopia's economy sector by sector: history, foreign exchange, agriculture and land.