Sunday, December 25, 2005

Winter Wedding!




(Rachel) Our friends Jennifer and Elliot had a beautiful wedding in Austin. If you couldn't tell by the Bevo groom's cake, they are fellow Longhorns. We also got to see two of my other UT colleagues - Maya and Lauren.

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Black-Scholes Excel Worksheet

After spending a futile hour searching the internet for a Black-Scholes Model (European-style options) for Excel, I made my own. Until I figure out how to post an .xls document to my blog, I can e-mail it to anyone who asks (free of course). It is very useful too! Just put in the information: stock price, exercise price, interest rate, variance, and time to expiration. The worksheet yields the value of the call and put. This just might save certain esoteric business students a few minutes.

Update from November '08: Who knew BS was so fascinating, this is definitely our most popular blog post. With a 95% confidence interval (3% sigma), I will e-mail out the model within 24 hours.