Exercises and Solutions in Finance

Hundreds of class-tested finance exercises that test student understanding. Many are educational in their own right-for example, delaying social security benefits does not give a safe 8% real return; the correlation between bond and stock returns is not stable, and most measures of company performance regress toward the mean.

Gary Smith is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Economics at Pomona College. He has won two teaching awards and written (or co-authored) more than 100 academic papers and 20 books. His statistical and financial research has been featured in various media, including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired, NPR Tech Nation, NBC Bay Area, CNBC, WYNC, WBBR Bloomberg Radio, NBC Think, Silicon Valley Insider, Motley Fool, Scientific American, Forbes, MarketWatch, MoneyCentral.msn, NewsWeek, Fast Company, The Economist, MindMatters, OZY, Slate and BusinessWeek.