The CIRM Reading List

Recently Reported

This article is a great example of the high cost to borrowers of self-serving advice by swap vendors:

The Swaps that Swallowed Your Town
© March 5, 2010 by Gretchen Morgenson for The New York Times

Books We Admire

Richard Thaler and Cass Sustein
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness © 2008 Yale University Press

Dan Ariely
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions © 2008 HarperCollins

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen Dubner
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything © 2005 William Morrow

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Daniel H. Pink
A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age © 2005 Riverhead Hardcover

Barry Schwartz
The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less © 2005 Harper Perennial

Peter Bernstein
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Michael Lewis
Liars Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street ©1989 W. W. Norton & Company

Aaron Wildavsky
Searching for Safety ©1988 Transaction Pub

JOURNAL OF APPLIED CORPORATE FINANCE
Published quarterly by Wiley Blackwell on behalf of Morgan Stanley

Papers We've Written

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Steven N. Manos and Kathryn M. Tobin,
"Zen in the Art of Interest Rate Swaps," ©1992.

Michael Ochs, "Developers Can 'Unhedge' Those Costly Interest Rate Guarantees," REAL ESTATE REVIEW, The Real Estate Institute of New York University, Vol. 16, No. 3,
©1986.