Grades are done! Have a great break. I hope you enjoyed the class. (you hid your excitement well! ;-) )
jim
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After the less than stellar performance on the first test, I gave the optional extra credit paper. Click here for details on the assignment.
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Class announcements are here. These are often overlooked. New announcemnets are added on an almost daily basis.
Notes
If you do not have PowerPoint, you will need to download a PowerPoint viewer
Tables on decline of banks market share
Chapter 2 Powerpoint notes or as a Powerpoint file
PBS has a very good site on the History of Money. A very cool site showing money from around the world
Chapter 9 (preliminary) (PowerPoint)
Chapter 12 to get a better understanding of the link between foreign
currency and economy
Currency Conversion Notes
Foreign exchange converter and
quote engine. (surprisingly cool!)
Current Events discussed in
class
AFTER MIDTERM BREAK
A brief outline of what we plan on
doing. Of course It will be undoubtedly off schedule as current events
eat into the timing, but we can try ;-)
(After a discussion it was decided that HTML notes are easier than
PowerPoint so that is the new format.)
Notes from Chapter 10 and on
the various types of markets and
rections to volatility.
Notes from chapter 11 on options.
For a slightly more advance coverage check here.
Notes from Chapter
13
Notes from Chapter 14
Notes on commerical bank management to follow.
Notes on the duration from my class and from Harvey
Campbells' class at Duke.
Notes for chapter 16 are here
Notes for Chapter 18
Notes for Chapter
19
Notes for Chapter 20
Notes for Chapter 23
Answers to selected problems from chapter 10
Answers to selected problems from chapter
11
Answers to selected problems from chapter
13
Answers to chapter 19
questions
Answers to chapter 20 questions
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Links:
The Fed's Web site, the New York Federal Reserve Bank's site. The FDIC has a cool, yet simple, learning site Cnnfn has an excellent site on the Fed and Banking
Here are some of the Fed links we discussed
in class.
Check out a relaxed and fun look at some Financial History or PBS has a very good site on the History of Money.
Another very good site dealing with the history of money.
A very cool site showing money
from around the world
It is a simulation
from the Fed, it sounds fun. You too can be Greenspan!
The required text will be The Financial System and the Economy by
Burton and Lombra. It iwill be available at the book store
or you can purchase it here and not have to wait in line
Buy
the Book