<r>Quoteindeed, what do they cover ?soviet-style economics ?There is at least one economic school in Moscow where most of the professors are having PhD from top universities and are active in research see <URL url="http://www.nes.ru/en/people/professors/mainThe">http://www.nes.ru/en/people/professor...

If you look for a program in Moscow, consider only NES (www.nes.ru)

Yes, it's extremely good introductory level book.

EPFL is not bad at finance e.g. they have Damir Filipovic. The decision is simple - if you are planning to work in UK, take MBS. If in mainland Europe, consider EPFL and... I guess take MBS anyway.

MCarreira, sorry for a stupid question: what's the language of this code?

Hi,I'm trying to choose a set of elective courses to take during the MFE program. Which of the following you'd consider to be more relevant for a practitioner (i.e. will be useful and look better on CV)?An Introduction to CopulasLévy Processes Thanks.

Hi,If you are also going to join the ETH Master of Quantitative Finance program in September 2011, drop me a line in PM. Especially if you are coming from abroad.

It looks exactly the same if compared by Table of Contents in Amazon.PS: I have 4th edition of this book (in Russian). It has 2 volumes. Also I have Proabability second edition in English. It is the same as two volumes of 4th edition in Russian.

<t>QuoteThe reason I chose to work with non-relational DB is that I don't see any advantage in having a relational DB for storing time series.But what are the advantages of non-relation db?QuoteDB will be faster if the DB is on the same drive instead of using a network db (cheaper as well).Cheaper -...

Try looking here - http://www.stanford.edu/~clint/bench/This is a good question. You may ask a broader question - where to find good test data for various statistical procedures?

<t>the main rule of thumb is - *don't* optimize until you really have to. don't put a second box until you will see that one box is not enough. just use sockets for communication between analytic and execution engines so it will be easy to use 2 boxes if needed.non relational DB? are you sure that y...

thanks!

US market.Timeframe - last 10 years would be nice.I would like to looking into IPO underpricing issue.

Hi All,Where can I find free historical data about IPOs (ticker, volumes, initial prices, etc) and secondary offerings?

QuoteOriginally posted by: hli7these are for equities. not sure if they apply to fx.This exactly the question I'm askingI haven't seen any papers on pair trading of currencies yet. So most probably it doesn't work for FX. But even if this is the case, I would like to know the reasons.