Literature

There is going to be no textbook. I will teach this course mostly on the basis of papers. All you need to know is within course pack. In addition, I will try to put most of those articles in PDF format on the web. In addition, course pack will include HBS cases (which I cannot put on the web due to copyright regulations)

Supplementary Materials:

• The Wall Street Journal, published daily by Dow Jones or The Financial Times.
• supplemental readings (distributed in class or through the web)

If you are thinking about career in Finance, I would strongly recommend the  books below. I do not agree with some ideas expressed there, but they are still fun to read.  By the way, the list is not complete by any measure...

Robert Haugen, The New Finance: the Case Against Efficient Markets,  Prentice Hall, 1999.

Jeremy Siegel, Stocks for the Long Run : The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-Term Investment Strategies, McGraw-Hill, 1998.

Robert J. Shiller, Irrational Exuberance, Princeton University Press, 2000.

Peter L. Bernstein, Capital Ideas : The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street, Free Press, 1993.

 Edwin Lefevre, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, John Wiley & Sons, 1994. Classics!

Roger Lowenstein, When Genius Failed : The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

Jack D. Schwager, Market Wizards : Interviews With Top Traders