This book includes the research contributions of eminent researchers whose works influenced the field of finance and shaped the literature into a new dimensions. Various branches of finance are explored to depict the historical journey of such remarkable research studies. This book will be very helpful to the new researchers who are about to begin their research journey in finance. The coverage of this book is arranged chronologically as far as possible to describe in a nutshell the research progress in the field of finance. This book made an attempt to survey the literature without reviewing the research studies individually.