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  • 25 of october Profiting from U.S. presidential elections might just be the ultimate form of democratic capitalism. So when the media spin surrounding the 2004 elections started gaining momentum, I decided to join the politically inspired pollsters and bumper sticker peddlers in finding and exploiting the inefficiencies resulting from predicting election results. I suppose it should not have been surprising that the time tested Arbitrage Pricing Theorem was equally applicable in the political arena... 

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    Mathematics & Economics

  • INTRODUCTION
    Mathematics and Economics are closely related. Many of today's economic or econometric models extensively leverage the tools of applied and, sometimes, theoretical mathematics. From simple curve fitting and time series analysis to complex optimization and forecasting problems, math is 
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    always part of the equation (pun intended). This page explores some of the online information sources for economics, econometrics, and mathematics. It is no secret that I am a big fan of Wolfram Research and their Mathematica product and the MathWorld online database. So don't forget to visit their site. In addition, you will find several other links worth visiting. In this category it is a bit more difficult to find sites that are of general interest but cover more than the basics.
     
  • 4 of november Quantitative finance is a challenging subject. However, financial practitioners don't exactly go out of their way to make the topic more accessible to outsiders. One problem is the language barrier, separating quants from the rest of the world. The following article makes light of a profession that has a tendency to take itself too seriously.  

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  • By clicking on the links on the left hand side you can access the referenced web-sites. A new browser window will open with the selected site. Please let me know of any broken links or outdated descriptions.  

     
    AMS.org

    The official page of the American Mathematical Society. Contains links to academic departments, publications, math job listings, and even TeX extensions for mathematicians. AMS is a good start to explore mathematical content.

    MathWorld

    The single best source for mathematical content on the web! If you encounter a mathematical concept you are unfamiliar with, this is the first webpage to visit. This excellent free resource is provided by Wolfram Research, the creaters of Mathematica. 

    ZMATH

    Enormous database of mathematical publications with over 2,000,000 entries. The search returns abstracts of the documents and in many cases the full document is linked as well and is freely available for download in various formats.

    Math Quotes

    Need to spice up your research paper with a clever quote? Check out the mathematical quotation server to get just the right passage. You can even download the entire collection and use is as your Unix fortune database.

    REPEC REsearch Papers in EConomics. Searchable database of economics papers, including content from the American Economic Association. Helpful resource!
    Econ Briefings  White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room. At least we can be absolutely sure that the economic numbers listed here are not politically motivated :-) Despite the possible bias, it's a quick overview of the latest numbers.
    Econ Roundtable This is a great site. Basically it aggregates over thirty Blogs and news publications with economic content. Example article from the Wall Street Opinion Journal: "Europeans are not lazy, just overtaxed". I knew it!  
    The Economist My magazine of choice. It's also listed in the Fun Stuff section but great things deserve to be repeated. 
    MIT Journals There are several journals that deserve a second look. The link on the left is to the Quarterly Journal of Economics. You can also find The Review of Economics and Statistics by the same publisher here.
    R Project Like statistical software, such as S but don't have the money or simply want access to the source code? Then the GNU R Project is perfect for you. R is largely compatible with S and is completely open source. It's a great project but I still prefer Mathematica (even for statistics).
    Econ PhD Excellent collection of lecture notes in the areas of Micro- and Macroeconomics, Mathematics, Econometrics and Software (Matlab, Gauss, et al).
    GRETL Another open source project. Gretl is an econometrics and time-series analysis library.
    Info Economy The idea of an information economy or even a computational economy has been discussed quite extensively in the last decade. One of the authorities in this subject is Hal Varian, the author of Information Rules. Varian (see his site here) is a professor at UC Berkeley and a very interesting character.  




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