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- November 2007
- Background Note
Event Arbitrage
By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
The event arbitrage module includes two simulation sessions. The first simulation focuses on analyzing and evaluating individual merger transactions, while the second simulation emphasizes managing a portfolio of individual positions and the limitations of arbitrage... View Details
- November 2007 (Revised March 2008)
- Teaching Note
Event Arbitrage (TN)
By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
- November 2007
- Background Note
Bayesian Estimation & Black-Litterman
By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Describes a practical method for asset allocation that is more robust to estimation errors than the traditional implementation of mean-variance optimization with sample means and covariances. The Bayesian inspired Black-Litterman model is described after introducing... View Details
- November 2007
- Article
Asset Fire Sales (and Purchases) in Equity Markets
By: Joshua Coval and Erik Stafford
- October 2007
- Background Note
Price Formation
By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Investigates how prices are formed in competitive capital markets. Focuses on a single security called AOE. Students compete with computer traders and each other for market making and informed trading profits. Participants receive a variety of public news in the form... View Details
- 2007
- Case
Deriving by Doing: A New Approach to Teaching Finance
By: Joshua Coval, Jonathan Gadzik and Erik Stafford
- October 2006 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
2006 Hurricane Risk
By: Andre F. Perold and Erik Stafford
In May 2006, a resident of Key West, Florida had to decide whether to renew his policy to insure against hurricane damage. The policy would cost $13,000 for one year, $5,000 more than what he paid in 2005. At the same time, a wealthy California resident was... View Details
- 2006
- Working Paper
Pricing Liquidity: The Quantity Structure of Immediacy Prices
By: George Chacko, Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
- June 2005 (Revised October 2007)
- Teaching Note
Market Efficiency (TN)
By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Teaching Note to (2-205-081). View Details
- June 2005 (Revised October 2007)
- Teaching Note
Price Formation (TN)
By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Teaching Note to (2-205-076) and (2-205-077). View Details
Keywords: Price
- June 2005 (Revised October 2007)
- Teaching Note
The Law of One Price (TN)
By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Teaching Note to (2-205-079). View Details
Keywords: Price
- 2005
- Working Paper
Asset Fire Sales (and Purchases) in Equity Markets
By: Joshua Coval and Erik Stafford
- September 2003 (Revised January 2004)
- Case
Giant Cinema
The owner of Giant Cinema must decide whether to invest in a digital projector, a new technology for screening films, or purchase a traditional projector. The impact of the new technology is uncertain, and the case describes probabilities for different outcomes that... View Details
- April 2002
- Article
Limited Arbitrage in Equity Markets
By: Mark Mitchell, T. Pulvino and Erik Stafford
- January 2002
- Teaching Note
Ocean Carries TN
By: Erik Stafford
Teaching Note for (9-202-027). View Details