Reference Works
Manuals, handbooks, encyclopedias, style guides, field guides, directories and data compilations meant to be consulted rather than read through. Read by people who need a specific fact or procedure quickly.
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Richard A. Posner · 1976 · The Chicago School's economic reformulation of doctrine.
John C. Hull · 1989 · The universal graduate text on derivatives pricing.
James C. Bonbright · 1961 · The rate-making reference: how an allowed return is actually set.
Charles T. Horngren, Srikant M. Datar, Madhav Rajan · 1962 · The standard text; still in print sixty years on.
Marcia L. Stigum · 1978 · Stigum's institutional bible of bills, repo, CP and Fed funds.
Frank J. Fabozzi · 1983 · The desk reference for every instrument in the market.
Martin Stopford · 1988 · The standard text on shipping cycles, freight rates and asset play.
Frank J. Fabozzi · 1989 · The standard course text on bond pricing and portfolio strategy.
Donald S. Passman · 1991 · The standard contract-by-contract guide to where music money actually flows.
Edward I. Altman, Edith Hotchkiss · 1993 · The academic standard; source of the Z-score.
Frank J. Fabozzi, Peter K. Nevitt · 2000 · The standard reference on lease structures, residuals and tax treatment.
E. R. Yescombe · 2002 · The standard text on non-recourse financing of infrastructure projects.
Sylvan G. Feldstein, Frank J. Fabozzi · 2008 · Fabozzi-style reference covering credit, structure and analytics.
Charles Van Doren · 1991 · Survey of what humans have known, era by era
Annette Thau · 1991 · Retail-investor guide with the clearest chapters on buying munis.
William B. Brueggeman, Jeffrey Fisher · 1993 · The standard university text on property underwriting.
Jeffrey Brabec, Todd Brabec · 1994 · The publishing-side reference on royalty streams and licensing income.
Moorad Choudhry · 2002 · Practitioner reference for the repo market that funds bill portfolios.
Karl Fogel · 2005 · The operational manual for running a project and its sponsors.
Rigas Doganis · 2005 · The standard academic text on airline economics.
Stefano Gatti · 2007 · Academic-practitioner treatment with worked deal structures.
Pauline Barrieu, Luca Albertini · 2009 · The closest thing to a cat bond reference; several chapters on structure and triggers.
Jan De Spiegeleer, Wim Schoutens · 2011 · Modern pricing, structuring and risk management reference.
Jan De Spiegeleer, Wim Schoutens, Cynthia Van Hulle · 2014 · Extends the same treatment to CoCos and other hybrids.
Lisa Bench Nieuwveld, Victoria Shannon Sahani · 2017 · The most cited treatment of funded claims and their regulation.
Steven Friel · 2020 · Written by a funder; the closest thing to an industry overview.
Lydia Maria Child · 1829 · 1829 household economy manual; thrift treated as a financial system
William Strunk, E.B. White · 1920
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles van Doren · 1940
Lewis Copeland, Lawrence W. Lamm, Stephen J. McKenna · 1942
Richard Phillips Feynman · 1963
David 86 Keirsey, Marilyn Bates · 1978
Charles T. Horngren, Gary L. Sundem, John A. Elliott · 1981
Jack D. Schwager · 1984 · Second edition 2017 with Mark Etzkorn, titled A Complete Guide to the Futures Market.
Charles VanDoren · 1992
Stephen T. Thornton · 1993
Estelle Ellis, Christopher Simon Sykes · 1995
Evelyn McFarlane, James Saywell · 1995
Evelyn McFarlane, James Saywell · 1996
Uday O. Pabrai, Vijay K. Gurbani · 1996
Ines Macho-Stadler, David Perez-Castrillo · 1997
Aswath Damodaran · 1997 · Open Library lists the title as "Corporate finance".
Thomas R. Ittelson · 1998 · Plain-language guide to reading the three financial statements.
Standard, Poor's, Alan J. Miller · 1998
Evelyn McFarlane, James Saywell · 1999
Vincent Canby · 1999
Evelyn McFarlane, James Saywell · 2000
Campbell R. Harvey, Gretchen Morgenson · with Gretchen Morgenson · 2002 · Henry Holt. Open Library API unreachable this pass.
Patrick Smith · 2004
LSTA · 2006 · LSTA reference on how leveraged loans are originated, syndicated and traded.
T4 Oil 101
Morgan Downey · 2009 · Trader's technical primer on barrels, grades, refining and pricing.
Ali Almossawi · 2013 · Short illustrated catalogue of the common logical fallacies
John Lanchester · 2014
Rocco Pirozzolo · 2014 · Short procedural handbook for funded claims in England.
Nicholas Rowles-Davies, Jeremy Cousins · 2014 · English-law practitioner text on funding agreements.
Nicholas J. Higham · 2015
Nathan Tobik, Kenneth J. Yellen · 2017 · Illiquid community banks, the classic nano cap hunting ground.
Vitaly S. Guzhva, Sunder Raghavan, Damon J. D'Agostino · 2018 · The only book-length treatment of aircraft leasing; a textbook.
Fantu Cheru, Christopher Cramer, Arkebe Oqubay · 2019 · Reference volume rather than a read; the only place much of this data exists in English.
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Lars Mytting
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Neil D. Jones, Carsten K. Gomard, Peter Sestoft
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Theodore Gray
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Michael Allaby, Robert Coenraads
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Richard Betts
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Richard Betts
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