Fun Reading

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Finance Theory in Action

bluedot Reading Room: A Wealth of On-line Finance Articles

bluedot Journal of Portfolio Management

bluedot Psychology and Behavioral Finance

bluedot A Timeline of Modern Finance

bluedot Analyze This: Fama vs Lakonishok (Efficiency vs Psychology)

bluedot Merton Miller’s Major Contribution: Arbitrage (pdf)

bluedot Insurance and Risk Aversion

bluedot Prospect Theory

bluedot Historical Stock Market Anomalies

bluedot How Finance Works by Moneychimp

bluedot Theory of Risk Aversion

bluedot Game Theory.Net

bluedot Normal Distribution Demo

bluedot Normal Distribution Demo2

 

Market Anomalies                                                     

bluedot Historic Stock Market Anomalies

bluedot Psychology and Behavioral Finance

bluedot Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers (Nathan, pdf)

bluedot Tax-free Exploitation of the TOM Effect (Kunkel-Compton, pdf)

bluedot Temporary Movement in Stock Prices (Lewellen, pdf)

bluedot Returns to Buying Winners and Selling Losers (Jagadeesh-Titman, pdf)

bluedot Permanent and Temporary Components in Stock Prices (Fama-French, JStor)

bluedot Value vs Growth: The International Evidence (Fama-French, SSRN)

 

The Economy                                                   

bluedot The Living Yield Curve

bluedot Historic Yield Curve Rates

bluedot Historic Spread from 1959: 10-year Treasuries less Fed Funds

bluedot FED: Daily Releases and Historical Data

bluedot 2004 Greenspan Report on Fannie and Freddie

bluedot Thoughts on the Laffer Curve

 

Investments

bluedot Market Overreaction

bluedot An Introduction to Investment Theory

bluedot What is the Dow Worth?

bluedot Is Your Brain Wired for Wealth? (Forbes 4 part article)

bluedot Technical Analysis: Some Basics

bluedot What is the VIX?

bluedot Getting Historical VIX data

bluedot Option Calculators

bluedot Short Interest Data on all Stocks

bluedot Real Options: What are They?

bluedot Real Options: Reality Check

bluedot Derivatives: A Picture Book (by Rubinstein)

bluedot NASD: Understanding Security Analysts’ Recommendations

bluedot The Internet and Electronic Stock Markets (pdf)

bluedot The Turtle Trader

bluedot Futures Trading Guide (Stocktrak tutorial)

 

Corporate Finance

bluedot WACC

bluedot How CFOs Make Capital Budgeting Decisions (pdf)

bluedot Finding the Right Capital Mix

 

International

bluedot Big MacArticles

bluedot IFC: The International Finance Corporation

bluedot IMF: The International Monetary Fund

 

Education

bluedot U.S. News and World Report School Rankings

bluedot Carnegie University Classification System

 

Useful Tools and Data

bluedot Professor Giddy’s Web Resources

bluedot Yahoo! Finance

bluedot An Interactive Stock Valuation Spreadsheet

bluedot Data Mining

bluedot Morningstar Mutual Fund X-ray

bluedot Market Watch Stock Evaluator

bluedot Big Charts

bluedot Index Funds Site

 

Exchanges and Indexes

bluedot Fair Value

bluedot What is the VIX?

            bluedot Spiders (SPDR)

bluedot The Dow Jones Averages

            bluedot Dow Jones Diamonds

bluedot The SEC on ECNs

            bluedot Adam Milton’s Day-Trading Blog

 

Taxes

bluedot Dinkytown Marginal vs Average Tax Rates

bluedot TurboTax Marginal Tax Rate Calculator

            bluedot Smart Money Tax Planning

 

Miscellaneous

 

Origins of Mexico’s 1994 Financial Crisis

Mexico’s Policy Failure and Moral Hazard

Buy a Call on a Snake: ECN’s and Futures Exchanges

What Equity Risk Premium: The Equity Risk Premium

Currency, Index, and Interest Rate Forecasts

 

 

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