Welcome to the Rotman Finance pre-course for incoming MBAs, 2009

Professor David Goldreich

416-946-0833, room 464

e-mail: david.goldreich@rotman.utoronto.ca

 

 

Course outline

Group activities

Groups

 

Slides1

Slides2

 

 

 

 

Data sources:

 

Yahoo finance

Bloomberg

St. Louis Fed (fred)

MSCI Barra

Conference Board

OECD

 

Other markets:

IG Index

Intrade

 

 

Books:

Guide to Financial Markets (The Economist)

A Random Walk Down Wall Street

 

Light economics books I liked:

The Undercover Economist

Naked Economics

Freakonomics

 

 

Here are some interesting readings:  (Recommendations for interesting links to thoughtful commentary on economics and finance are appreciated.)

 

Becker Posner Blog (Blogs don't get more thoughtful than this.)

Tim Harford's columns (Always interesting and often humorous applications of economics. Register at FT for free.)

Greg Mankiw’s Blog