We first wrote and circulated our “Rookie's Guide” paper about the academic labor market for newly minted finance PhDs twenty years ago. It passed hand-to-hand and via photocopies of photocopies sent using snail mail (or, back then, we just called it ‘mail'). Since then, much has changed...

I have collected together 10 results concerning marginal distributions, joint distributions, univariate normality, bivariate normality, correlation and independence. Some of these results are well known, but some are relatively unknown. My experience has been that no single source presents more...

The dramatic increase in the importance of U.S. dividends since 2001 means that financial analysts may soon demand access to updated dividend discount models (DDMs). To address this need, we introduce a new “super annuity formula” that can be used in the modular construction of...

Limit order markets are a common method for trading stocks based on the use of a limit order book to represent buy and sell orders. The issue of market manipulation is a fundamental concern both in terms of market integrity and the ability to detect manipulation cases by market authorities. This...