Support for your coursework and research.
Resources.
Financial Calculator
An interactive calculator for common finance problems and course applications.
Excel
A guide to common financial formulas used in coursework and analysis.
Research Guide
A starting point for developing research questions, finding sources, and organizing evidence.
Financial Data
Links for locating market, firm, banking, and economic data.
Study Tips
Practical advice for preparing and practicing applications in finance.
Student Work.
Honors thesis advising
Bring a one-paragraph pitch and a sense of what data you can access.
Independent study
One-on-one course work on special topics in finance, tailored to your interests and level.
Research mentorship
For students who want to work on a research manuscript for publication in an academic journal.
Finance Bookshelf.
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel
A clear starting point for understanding market efficiency, indexing, and why simple investing rules are hard to beat.
The Big Short
Michael Lewis
Useful for seeing how incentives, mortgage products, ratings, and skepticism collided before the financial crisis.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
A strong behavioral-finance companion because it explains the judgment shortcuts behind many financial decisions.
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A provocative way to think about model limits, rare events, and the danger of treating uncertainty as tidy risk.
Too Big to Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin
A readable institutional account of crisis decision-making, liquidity pressure, and the policy tradeoffs of 2008.
Flash Boys
Michael Lewis
A useful entry into market microstructure, high-frequency trading, and how trading infrastructure shapes outcomes.
This Time Is Different
Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff
Best read as a long-run reminder that debt cycles, banking crises, and sovereign stress recur across countries and eras.