TEACHING FINANCE IN PERIODS OF UNCERTAINTYPeter Mayall |
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Universities strive to tailor relevance of the courses they teach to the real world and the application of their material to the current financial environment. The problem facing teachers is the evergreen rules that they are used to applying are being overridden by the volatility of the marketplace and the velocity of the changes. Technology is speeding up the circulation of knowledge to the point that responses to marketplace events are being distorted by sudden volumes of trades that it was not designed to handle in an orderly fashion. The challenge is to use the edge that technology provides to change teaching methods and account for these sudden financial events that do so much to distort the orderly marketplace that previously responded to commonly used financial models. This study looks at the tools that technology provides and poses the question as to whether this will be enough going forward to equip students with the knowledge to handle the volatility issues in the marketplace and their careers in finance. |
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