Dagfinn Rime Dagfinn Rime
Professor of Finance 

This page contains some suggestions I have for students. It started of intended for fresh PhD-students, but I believe it may be useful also for MSc-students.

Useful software

EPS2PDF: Convert EPS-graphs to PDF
(requires GhostScript)

LaTeXDraw: A drawing editor for LaTeX


TpX: Another drawing editor for LaTeX


ReadCube: Organizes your PDFs


Gretl: Free econometrics software



Links


Books

E-book of Strunk and White





Economical writing





Guide for the young economist





LATEX: a Document Preparation System, by Leslie Lamport

Against the Gods, by Peter L. Bernstein





Liar's Poker, by Michael Lewis





Men of Mathematics, by E.T. Bell





The Foundations of Analysis: A Straightforward Introduction: Book 1 Logic, Sets and Numbers, by Ken Binmore

Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Dubner





Manias, Panics and Crashes, by Charles P. Kindleberger and Robert Z. Aliber



Fermat's Last Theorem, by Simon Singh





The Foundations of Topological Analysis: A Straightforward Introduction: Book 2 Topological Ideas, by Ken Binmore

Mathematical Analysis: A Straightforward Approach, by Ken Binmore