ONLINE
TEXTBOOKS AND
READINGS
IN FINANCE
Macro-Investment
Analysis.
- This is a work in progress written by William F.
Sharpe, of Stanford. This is a non-traditional investments text
which will help you analyze how assets should be selected. The
role of the analyst, investor and investment firm and security are all built
into the book.
- Dale's Thoughts on
Learning Investments
- Some good ideas from someone who's been there.
- Wacho World
- Web site accompanies Van Horne and Wachowitz textbook.
- Cases in
Productivity and Financial Services
- From Columbia.
- Introduction
to Options
- This is a complete textbook on options on the web. Put together by
Finance.Wat.ch.
- Finance
and Derivatives Glossary
- Covers a wide variety of terms. Developed by Campbell Harvey at Duke.
Also see A Guide
to Futures and Options Quotations.
- Super CFOs: They Can't Jump...
- Well-written article from Fortune discusses the real role that
CFOs play at a variety of companies.
- Research Papers from Olsen and
Associates
- You will find many papers here on investments, volatility, genetic
algorithms, trading models etc. High tech. In HTML and Postscript format.
- Can a Financial
Market Be Too Liquid and Too Efficient?
- By Brad DeLong at Berkeley. Thought-provoking article.
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Documents
on the AT&T Restructuring
- Derivatives R Us
Articles
- Weekly commendary from Don Chance at Virginia Tech.
- Mike
Milken and the Two Trillion Dollar Opportunity
- One of the more interesting articles written about corporate finance,
technology and debt. Excerpt from Telecosm
by George Gilder.
- The Fed - Our Central Bank
- Strong Dollar - Weak Dollar
- Excerpts from
"Buffett" by Roger Lowenstein
-
Introduction to Derivatives from the American Stock Exchange
- Capital
Formation: How Companies Raise Money in the '90s
- A well-written article on the IPO process from the AMEX.
- Ethical Investing
and the Returns to Sinful Industries
- by CHRISTOPHER LUCK and VIDA
TIGRANI, BARRA.
- Fixed Income
Risk Modeling in the 1990s.
- By Ronald Kahn.
- Does Historical
Performance Help Predict Future Performance?
- This study of mutual
funds finds persistence in mutual fund performance.
- SEC Study on Derivatives
- JP Morgan Government Bond Guide
- The Benefits and Risks of
Derivatives
- This paper by Rajna Gibson and Heinz Zimmerman is nicely
done and is provided from the Geneva Papers.
- What Lies Ahead in Investment Banking
- Notes on Changing Patterns of Business
Financing
- International Financial Encyclopeadia
- Froeb's Thoughts on
Tacit Collusion on the NASDAQ
- NASDAQ Financial
Executive Journal
- Listing of
Articles in Nest Egg.
- Nest Egg is a periodical on investing aimed at high net worth
individuals. Articles are well-written and topical.
- Beyond Conventional Wisdom: Adapting to
the Forces of Change,
- A Speech by
Vice Chairman Roberto Mendoza,
J.P. Morgan & Co. Incorporated
- Your Banker Wants
to be Your Broker
- From Nestegg by Timothy Middleton.
- Investment
Insights from Merrill Lynch
- Global
Factors: Fact or Fiction?
- A paper by Richard Grinold, Andrew Rudd and
Dan Stefek, BARRA.
- Emerging
Markets: A Quantative Perspective
- by Arjun B. Divecha, Jaime Drach,
and Dan Stefek, BARRA.
- Valuation
and Risk Analysis of International Bonds
- by Brian Murphy and
David Won, BARRA.
- SEC Rule
15c6-1 "T+3":
The Shortening of the Settlement Period
-
By Jeffrey A. Grossman
- Speeches
by Executives of the Bank of Montreal
- E-Money:
Thats What I Want
- Courtesy of Wired Magazine.
- Yahoo
List of online teaching resources
- Educational Resources
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