Leverage

LEVERAGE
Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1990
by
MERTON H. MILLER
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Foundations of Portfolio Theory

FOUNDATIONS OF PORTFOLIO THEORY
Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1990
by
HARRY M. MARKOWITZ
Baruch College, The City University of New York, New York, USA

The Crisis of 2008: Lessons learned, unlearned and reinforced

In an article, posted on his blog, Aswath Damodaran, a famous name in modern corporate finance and valuation and author of many books, comments on how his perception of various market views has evolved after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection.

To me #1 is his observation: There is no risk-free asset. Pick up yours.

The Crisis of 2008: Lessons learned, unlearned and reinforced

The Capital Asset Pricing Model

CAPITAL ASSET PRICES WITH AND WITHOUT NEGATIVE HOLDINGS
Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1990
by
WILLIAM F. SHARPE
Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Stanford, California,
USA

Nobel Economists Offer First Aid for Global Economy

Five winners of the Nobel Prize for economics share their views on what the
future global finance order should look like in exclusive essays for
SPIEGEL.

Contributors To The Crisis

The British Guardian and their City editor Julia Finch have made a list of twenty-five individuals who, according to them, have led us into the current crisis. Twenty-five people at the heart of the meltdown...

Global Financial Crisis Video Webcast with Gillian Tett

In this video webcast (01:05:09), dated 4th of Dec, 2008, Gillian Tett, an assistant editor of the Financial Times responsible for their global coverage of financial markets, explains the market’s collective reaction to the global financial crisis using the Kubler-Ross model of the stages of grief. Ms. Tett draws on her experience witnessing the Japanese banking system collapse in the 1990s and makes comparisons to the financial markets’ current troubles.

The webcast is available at the CFA Institute sub-site CFA Webcasts. The interview with Tett is part of a Global Financial Crisis Roundtable with one more webcast. The event archive is avalable here.

IMF:Fiscal Policy During Financial Crisis

The International Monetary Fund published December 29th, 2008 a staff position note named Fiscal Policy for the Crisis. The document, among other things, reviews five case studies of fiscal policy during financial crisis featuring the Great Depression, the Banking Crisis in Japan in 1997, the Economic Crisis in Korea in 1997, the Savings and Loan (S&L) Crisis in the US (1980s–1990s) and the Nordic Banking and Economic Crises.

Lessons from history are thought usually helpful for assessing market situations. Take your time to review.

Antonio Spilimbergo, Steve Symansky, Olivier Blanchard,and Carlo Cottarelli
806K PDF, 38 pages

Financial Crisis Timeline II

BBC, like REUTERS, have their own extensive crisis timeline which provides text coverage since April 2007. The timeline starts with a quick guide to the origins of the global financial crisis.

April, 2007, New Century Financial, which specialises in sub-prime mortgages, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced cuts of half of its workforce.

The timeline is named Global credit crunch.