Suggested Readings and Linksfor Students of Finance

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The Stories

When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long Term Capital Management; RogerLowenstein

Origins of the Crash; Roger Lowenstein

Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street; Peter Bernstein

Capital Ideas Evolving; Peter Bernstein

Liar’s Poker: Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street; Michael Lewis

Monkey Business: Swinging through the Wall Street Jungle; John Rolfe and Peter Troob

Nerds on Wall Street: Math, Machines, and Wired Markets;David Leinweber

Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street; (video) Marije Meerman

Perspectives on Decision Making

Irrational Exuberance; Robert Schiller

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets; Nicholas Taleb

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable; Nicholas Taleb

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game; Michael Lewis

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator; Edwin Levernc

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk; Peter Bernstein

A Random Walk Down Wall Street; Burton Malkiel

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds; Charles MacKay

The Wisdom of Crowds; James Surowiecki

The Poker face of Wall Street; Aaron Brown

More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places; MichaelMauboussin

A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market;John Allen Paulos

TheWinner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economics;Richard Thaler (bonus: video)

The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives; Leonard Mlodinow(bonus:video)

Words from “the Gurus”

Bill Gross on Investing; William H. Gross

Essays by Warren Buffett; Warren Buffett

The Alchemy of Finance: Reading the Mind of the Market; George Soros

Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom; Bob Woodward

The Education of a Speculator;Victor Niederhoffer

Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders; Jack D. Schwager

The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders; Jack D. Schwager

Money Masters of Our Time; John Train

One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market; Peter Lynch

Inside the House of Money;Steven Drobny

The Intelligent Investor; Benjamin Graham

How I became a Quant: Insights from 25 of Wall Street’s Elite; Richard Lindsey and Barry Schachter

References

Understanding Wall Street; Jeffrey Little and Lucian Rhodes

Barron's Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms; John Downes and Jordan ElliotGoodman

Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners; Larry Harris

Analysis for Financial Management; Robert Higgins

Financial Modeling; Simon Benninga

Hidden Financial Risk: Understanding off Balance Sheet Financing; J. Edward Ketz

The Financial Numbers Game: Detecting creative accounting Practices; Charles Mulford

Financial Shenanigans: How to detect accounting gimmicks and fraud in financial reports; Howard Schilit

Financial Fine Print: Uncovering a Company’s True Value; Michelle Leder

Introduction to Fixed Income Mathematics; Frank Fabozzi

Investment Valuation; Aswath Damodaran

Handbook of Fixed Income Securities; Frank Fabozzi

Handbook of Mortgage Backed Securities; Frank Fabozzi

Principles of Corporate Finance; Franklin Allen, Richard Brealey, and Stewart Myers

Bond Book: Everything Investors Need to Know About Treasuries, Municipals, GNMAs, Corporates, Zeros, Bond Funds, Money Market Funds, and More; Annette Thau

Controlling and Managing Interest Rate Risk; Anthony G. Cornyn and Robert A. Klein

The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities; Edited by Frank J. Fabozzi

The Money Market; Marcia Stigum

Money Market Bond Calculations; Marcia Stigum

Options, Futures and Other Derivatives; John C. Hull

Derivatives; Robert McDonald

Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Strategies and Techniques ;Sheldon Natenberg

Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management; Frank Reilly and Keith Brown

Essentials of Investments; Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, and Alan Marcus

Cartoon Guide to Statistics; Larry Gonick and Woollcott Smitt

International Economics: Theory and Policy; Paul R. Krugman

Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions from Wall Street Job Interviews; Tim Crack

Vault Guide to Finance Interviews

Vault Guide to Sales and Trading

Vault Guide to Investment Banking

Websites

News, prices, and forecasts

DealBook's document room

dealbreaker.com

finance.yahoo.com

Bloomberg Markets monthly magazine

Data for the muni market

WoframAlpha - Finance

Market trading simulations

CME Group market simulation game

Yahoo's list of financial simulation games on the web

Exchanges

stock futures)

Financial Research

American Finance Association and link to the Journal of Finance

Journal of Financial Economics

Review of Financial Studies

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Journal of Corporate Finance

Western Finance Association

SSRN: Financial Economics Network

John Cochrane's writing tips for Ph D students

Other

Reelin’ in the years - A collection of videos chronicling the history of finance

Riskdata.com

Warren Buffet’s letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders

Numbersguy

Bloomberg’s Financial Glossary (compiled by Campbell Harvey)

Freakanomics.com

Statistical Analysis and Football: A great combination

Trading Technologies See extensive list of exchanges and trading firmsunder TT gateways

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