The Top Achievements, Challenges, and Failures of Finance

Ivo Welch

Yale School of Management Working Papers from Yale School of Management

Abstract: Having seen one too many David Letterman show, I decided that it was time for me to put together my own list for the best accomplishments of my discipline, Finance. There is much subjectivity in my particular selection of subjects. Still, I would guess that most finance professors would agree that most of my final choices below represent important progress in the development of finance. Alas, I would expect none to agree with my specific rankings. Thus, my hope is that the list below is of interest to many practitioners and academics. I then went overboard and decided that it would also be useful to put on paper what I consider to be the most important challenges of Finance to work on, as well as some failures. Necessarily, the target audience here is primarily academic researchers, not practitioners. And, naturally, however subjective the list of a

Date: 2001-11-01, Revised 2002-04-01
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