"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