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DTSTART:20090210T180500Z
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LOCATION: 4274 Chamberlin
SUMMARY:A brief survey of financial derivatives\, Chaos & Complex Syst
 ems Seminar\, Don Hester\, UW Department of Economics
DESCRIPTION:Financial derivative contracts have exploded in varietyand
  complexity since the early 1970s. I will describe and interpret the b
 asic "plain vanilla" derivatives\, forward\, futures\, and option cont
 racts\, in the first half of this talk. Then I will explore the reason
 s for the proliferation of new derivatives\, interpret several of them
 \, and comment on how they have impacted the economy.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=1437
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