Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, Fall 2004
"Happenings" on campus
10.07.04:
Update on Flu Vaccination at Baylor...
10.07.04:
Flu Clinics Schedule
09.30.04:
Business Ethics Forum
09.30.04:
Today's Gamma Iota Sigma meeting
09.23.04:
Ernst & Young Presentation on September 30, 2004, 6:30 PM, Weithorn Visitors Center
09.16.04:
Baylor Career Fair
09.07.04:
Don't miss Jan Meacham's speech at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26 in the Mayborn Museum Complex!
08.25.04:
Baylor Fall 2004 Career Fair
08.24.04:
Business Ethics Forum, November 1-5, 2004
FIN 4366
12.13.04:
Final Exam and Course Grades
12.08.04:
Information about the Final Exam
12.06.04:
Tomorrow's (12/7) review session is canceled; I will hold office hours instead
12.01.04:
Plan for the last day of class!
12.01.04:
Finals Week: Information concerning review session and office Hours for FIN 4366
11.23.04:
Plan for the last two classes
11.20.04:
Risk Neutral Valuation, RADR, CEQ, etc.
11.17.04:
Some changes to the problem set dates/assignments
11.16.04:
Midterm 2 Grades and Current Grade Distribution for FIN 4366
11.15.04:
due date for problem set #7 will be Thursday, November 18
11.10.04:
Option pricing lecture notes now available (for November 11-18 class meetings)
11.09.04:
Midterm exam 2 blank exam booklet and key is now availble from the class website
11.06.04:
Midterm exam #2 reminders and "hints"
11.03.04:
Change in problem set assignment
11.03.04:
reading assignment for tomorrow
11.03.04:
Notation used in the "Introduction to Binomial Trees (Part 2)" Lecture note
10.30.04:
Updated Lecture notes, new due date for problem set 6
10.27.04:
New lecture note and information concerning problem sets
10.25.04:
Lecture notes for Tuesday, October 26 are now available!
10.19.04:
Updating of class website
10.19.04:
lecture notes and problem set assignment
10.13.04:
Update on Finance 4366
10.12.04:
Midterm 1 Grades and Current Grade Distribution for FIN 4366
10.05.04:
Midterm exam #1 and key
10.03.04:
Various housekeeping issues related to the first midterm exam on Tuesday, October 5
09.29.04:
Hints for solving the 3rd problem on problem set #3
09.19.04:
Due dates for Problem Sets 2 and 3
09.18.04:
More on double deductibles
09.16.04:
"Final" version of the lecture notes from this week
09.16.04:
Class cancellation: Tuesday, September 21, 2004
09.16.04:
Solutions for Problem Set #1 are now available from the class website!
09.08.04:
Problem set 1 is now due on Tuesday, September 14
09.06.04:
This week's agenda for Finance 4366
08.30.04:
This week's FIN 4366 agenda: Mathematics and Statistics Tutorials
08.24.04:
Reminders about class on Thursday, August 26
08.16.04:
Instructions on how to receive the Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (OFOD) blog as a "news feed"
08.16.04:
The first of many announcements for the Fall 2004 Options, Futures and Other Derivatives course
Internship/Job/Career Opportunities
09.30.04:
Securitization Analyst Position with Prudential Mortgage Capital Company
09.28.04:
Full-Time Credit Analyst Position with American Bank in Waco
08.24.04:
Career Opportunity at The Hartford San Antonio
Miscellaneous
12.06.04:
PointOfLaw.com
12.03.04:
George Costanza, risk management "expert"
12.02.04:
National "do not call" cell phone registry
10.28.04:
Political entertainment
10.01.04:
New career/internship opportunities website for the Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate
09.30.04:
Voter registration in Texas
09.16.04:
Document scandals ad nauseum...
09.14.04:
Upcoming PBS documentary entitled "The Question of God" airing September 15 and September 22
09.14.04:
What is Phishing?
09.09.04:
Baylor football a bear market
09.06.04:
Straight Talk about Today's Markets
Recommended Books and Articles
09.07.04:
After Storms, Florida Wakes Up to a New Insurance Reality
09.06.04:
Nobel Laureates Speak Out
08.26.04:
The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
The "real" world
12.06.04:
The Blogosphere Just Got A Whole Lot Smarter
11.30.04:
George Will's perspective on political bias in academia
11.23.04:
Some practical strategies for becoming gainfully employed!
11.22.04:
Political bias in the groves of academe!
11.17.04:
Against grade inflation - How to counter declining rigor in US university courses.
11.17.04:
What's Behind Edward C. Prescott's Nobel Prize?
11.16.04:
Pension Guarantor's Deficit Doubles
11.09.04:
Compensating the Victims of 9/11
11.09.04:
Outsourcing debate
11.09.04:
Social Security Reform
11.03.04:
Erratum...
11.02.04:
Hopefully this will be my last blog entry today about prediction markets...
11.02.04:
The latest prediction markets story
11.01.04:
What are the prediction markets saying on the eve of the election?
10.27.04:
Some Canadian Flu Shot Alternatives
10.26.04:
Prediction markets assessment of the Presidential Election
10.25.04:
PBS Program about the Stock Market Crash of 1929
10.20.04:
Daily Times Series of Closing Prices for the PRESIDENT.GWBUSH2004 and PRESIDENT.KERRY2004 Futures Contracts
10.18.04:
Who's Behind the Bush-Futures Attacks
10.18.04:
Important WSJ article about and video interviews with some of the leading academic thinkers in finance
10.14.04:
"Infectious Politics" - article about the flu vaccine shortage in today's Wall Street Journal
10.14.04:
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
10.11.04:
Prediction markets - who won the Nobel Prize?
10.09.04:
Prediction markets - who will win the Nobel Prize?
10.05.04:
Impact of the tort system on flu vaccine availability in the United States
09.28.04:
Catastrophe risk summary and recommended reading
09.21.04:
As Bush Goes, So Goes Market
09.16.04:
Ivan May Take Wind Out of Alfa's Sails
09.15.04:
Kerry Economic Policy
09.15.04:
Should the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) be allowed to expire as scheduled at the end of 2005?
09.15.04:
Hedge Funds Bet On Catastrophe Reinsurance
09.13.04:
Investors Who Bet On Storms, Disasters Gauge Trade Winds
09.12.04:
New Study Debunks Link Among Winning College Athletic Programs and Increases in Donations and Quality of Applicants
09.11.04:
Update on the relationship between stock market returns and presidential futures returns
09.09.04:
Reinsurance reinstatement option
09.09.04:
The double deductible problem in Florida
09.07.04:
Catastrophes and moral hazard: The Case of Florida Windstorm Risk
09.06.04:
Forecasted paths of Hurricanes Frances and Ivan
09.06.04:
Financial Implications of Hurricanes
08.16.04:
Kerry up, markets down? A regression analysis
07.27.04:
Political "Futures" Markets II
07.22.04:
Effect of Tax Rules on Dividend Policy
07.16.04:
On the impact of high fuel prices on airline profitability and the propensity to hedge risk
07.07.04:
Political "futures" markets I