Table of contents - Special Issue: Financial education
Guest Editors: Doug Waggle
Excel best practices
Robert J. BalikCurrently many jobs for undergraduate finance majors require that the student demonstrate advanced Excel modeling skills. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate and explain…
An automation algorithm for harvesting capital market information from the web
Pankaj AgrrawalThe purpose of this paper is to develop an algorithm to harvest user specified information on finance portals and compile it into machine‐readable datasets for quantitative…
Portfolio optimization using the quadratic optimization system and publicly available information on the WWW
Jivendra K. KaleThe purpose of this paper is to describe some optimization exercises which have proved to be very useful for introducing students to Markowitz‐style mean‐varience optimization.
Estimating accounting and finance models with Microsoft Excel
Gary S. Robson, Yong B. Shin, J. Wilson MixonThe purpose of this paper is to propose a way to introduce regression analysis into courses with minimal start‐up time. Doing so makes it less likely that introducing both the…
Faculty practices in undergraduate investments courses
Doug Waggle, Gisung MoonThe purpose of this paper is to examine the practices of professors teaching the introductory class in investments.
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- Professor Don Johnson