Resources and Public Goods

Researcher resources

• ABDC Journal Quality List (2025) viewer
• Overview of packages for generating LaTeX output from Stata code
• strcompress: Better compression for Stata string variables
• stata_ntfy: Send Stata notifications to ntfy.sh
• Archived daily newspaper front page data (starting 2023)
• Junior finance faculty on Twitter

Instructor resources

• Online teaching tutorial series (5 videos)
• Teaching-from-home tech inspiration (11 videos)
• First day of class student self-introductions: A “chain” method

PhD resources

• Stanford economics Ph.D. corePDF summary notes
• Microeconomic Theory for Non-Economics Ph.D. Students (Stanford Economics 202N)PDF teaching slides
• First-Year Ph.D. Macroeconomics (Stanford Economics 210)PDF teaching notes

Undergraduate/Master’s resources (course videos)

• Key financial statements
  • Introduction
  • Balance sheets
  • Income statements
• The time-value of money in Excel
• Valuation
  • Introduction to bond and stock valuation
  • Basic bond valuation
  • Basic stock valuation
  • The “Venture Capital” method
• Risk and return
  • Introduction
  • Bonds
  • Stocks
  • Introduction to the Capital Asset Pricing Model
• Capital budgeting
  • Introduction
  • Payback period
  • Net Present Value
  • Internal Rate of Return
  • Project cash flows
  • Depreciation and asset sales
• Relative valuation: McDonald’s example
• Financial forecasting
  • Financial forecasting
  • Practice problem: Always Day International

Newton Public Schools resources

• Simple school lunch menus (web and calendar feeds)
  • Angier Elementary School
  • Brown Middle School