This lecture is all about introducing you to something you won’t find anywhere else–the stock market from a physicists viewpoint. Some notes are here, the big set of notes are here. This lecture is based on MFM Osborne’s pioneering work in econophysics in the 1970’s, his best work is here. Here are the lecture slides.
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This lecture introduced you to some interesting terminology and a few pieces of notation we’ll use throughout the lecture series. Here are the notes I gave out in class, two cool readings can be accessed on my twitter stream for this class, read this if you’ve only got 5 minutes before tomorrow. Head to Wolframalpha [...]
Also tagged Add new tag, Business, Equities, Investing, Number Theory, Stock market, Stocks and Bonds, TraderHere are the lecture notes for the last lecture, and below is a recording of the lecture. Remember, email if you have questions, and good luck in the final exam. Thanks very much for attending lectures and giving me your feedback by text, email, twitter, and the old fashioned conversation. It’s been a blast.
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A recording of lecture 10 is here.
Also, drop Darragh an email if you’d like to take a look at your problem sets, we won’t be handing them back.
A student asked for previous lecture slides (not the in-class handouts) in the 2*2 slide format, which I wasn’t too chuffed about, but [...]
Get the lecture notes here, and a recording of the lecture is here.
From Michael Taft’s blog, which is excellent, here’s an interesting chart describing Ireland’s current situation and our policy choices in 5 weeks’ time.
The multiplier row I referred to in the lecture starts here and here, you can read the rest yourselves. The Ernst [...]
In this lecture, we looked at the workings of the ECB, the economics of monetary integration, and went over the problem set. Click here to get the lecture notes, and a recording of the presentation is below.
Economics of EU Integration Lecture 6 from Stephen Kinsella on Vimeo.
Also tagged ECB, Economic, Education, European Central Bank, Eurozone, Monetary policy, Social SciencesHere is the podcast for Economics for Business, Lecture 7. In this lecture we talked about market failure, public goods, information economics, and looked at the likelihood of sudocream being displaced as the number one cream for your baby’s bum. Here are the lecture notes as a handout. Click here for the Akerlof article I [...]
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