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Using public television’s “Trillion Dollar Bet” as a primer on financial risk.

SelectedWorks Author Profiles:

Todd M. Shank

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2006

Abstract

In this special topics classroom discussion/ project, the financial management issues of systemic and model risks are examined, the Efficient Markets Hypothesis is analyzed, and the emerging field of Behavioral Finance is introduced. This interactive approach of having students respond to a list of instructor-prepared discussion issues/questions during the showing of the video is a great break from courses that are straight-lecture in orientation. The potential to require a follow-up assignment where students act as market participants in a virtual financial market on www.pbs.org adds to the interactive nature of the project.

Comments

Full-text article is also available at the Journal of College Teaching & Learning, (2006) 3(2), 83-88. Members of the USF System may access the full-text of the article through the authenticated link provided.

Language

en_US

Publisher

Western Academic Press

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

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