Malcolm Wardlaw
@malcolmwardlaw.info
I'm a finance professor at the University of Georgia. https://www.malcolmwardlaw.info/
Banking and Corporate Finance, Labor, Statistical Methods
Dune is about worms.
Banking and Corporate Finance, Labor, Statistical Methods
Dune is about worms.
I guess Tim Apple is good at his one job.
April 13, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I guess Tim Apple is good at his one job.
One of my favorite Twitter posts of the last week.
April 7, 2025 at 8:28 PM
One of my favorite Twitter posts of the last week.
I'm not often surprised by LLMs these days. Claude 3.7's response to my half-joking "I hate it" legitimately surprised me.
(this was part of an extended query about how SOFR is quoted.)
(this was part of an extended query about how SOFR is quoted.)
March 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I'm not often surprised by LLMs these days. Claude 3.7's response to my half-joking "I hate it" legitimately surprised me.
(this was part of an extended query about how SOFR is quoted.)
(this was part of an extended query about how SOFR is quoted.)
If there are any LBO firms out there with dry powder and a good guess as to who this 10% is…
March 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If there are any LBO firms out there with dry powder and a good guess as to who this 10% is…
For the "seasonal working hours" and "Full-time DST" advocates out there, I would point out that George Hudson articulated why this does not work in *1895* when he first proposed the idea.
March 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
For the "seasonal working hours" and "Full-time DST" advocates out there, I would point out that George Hudson articulated why this does not work in *1895* when he first proposed the idea.
It's a cool scene. You spot a bunch of nice little touches. The Polish flag. Greece and Norway. The old Canadian and Indian flags.
March 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It's a cool scene. You spot a bunch of nice little touches. The Polish flag. Greece and Norway. The old Canadian and Indian flags.
Not really. The graph is more or less the same for other jobs. What the graph is really showing is a rapid and ill advised expansion of the money supply.
February 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Not really. The graph is more or less the same for other jobs. What the graph is really showing is a rapid and ill advised expansion of the money supply.
I’m of two minds. It’s true that normal, well-run companies don’t leak like this. On the other hand, lighting public dumpster fires is basically the Facebook’s core business.
January 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I’m of two minds. It’s true that normal, well-run companies don’t leak like this. On the other hand, lighting public dumpster fires is basically the Facebook’s core business.
The elementary schools have been closed for 3 days now due to cold weather, and some mysterious plague has ravaged the babysitter population.
January 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The elementary schools have been closed for 3 days now due to cold weather, and some mysterious plague has ravaged the babysitter population.
#FRAConference Paper #3
Hartzmark and Sussman: “Eliciting Expectations”
Survey design and the ability to solicit meaningful values for beliefs about mean and variance.
fraconference.com/wp-content/u...
Hartzmark and Sussman: “Eliciting Expectations”
Survey design and the ability to solicit meaningful values for beliefs about mean and variance.
fraconference.com/wp-content/u...
December 7, 2024 at 10:57 PM
#FRAConference Paper #3
Hartzmark and Sussman: “Eliciting Expectations”
Survey design and the ability to solicit meaningful values for beliefs about mean and variance.
fraconference.com/wp-content/u...
Hartzmark and Sussman: “Eliciting Expectations”
Survey design and the ability to solicit meaningful values for beliefs about mean and variance.
fraconference.com/wp-content/u...
#FRAConference Paper #2
Goyal, Reed, Smajlbegovic, Soebhag: “Stealthy Shorts: Informed Liquidity Supply”
Short sellers as liquidity providers.
ssrn.com/abstract=494...
Goyal, Reed, Smajlbegovic, Soebhag: “Stealthy Shorts: Informed Liquidity Supply”
Short sellers as liquidity providers.
ssrn.com/abstract=494...
December 7, 2024 at 10:29 PM
#FRAConference Paper #2
Goyal, Reed, Smajlbegovic, Soebhag: “Stealthy Shorts: Informed Liquidity Supply”
Short sellers as liquidity providers.
ssrn.com/abstract=494...
Goyal, Reed, Smajlbegovic, Soebhag: “Stealthy Shorts: Informed Liquidity Supply”
Short sellers as liquidity providers.
ssrn.com/abstract=494...
#FRAConference Paper #1
Navid Neshan: “When Political Connections Backfire: Social Protests, Asset Damage, and Firms' Response”
Politically connected firms in Iran as the target of destruction by protestors in 2019.
ssrn.com/abstract=474...
Navid Neshan: “When Political Connections Backfire: Social Protests, Asset Damage, and Firms' Response”
Politically connected firms in Iran as the target of destruction by protestors in 2019.
ssrn.com/abstract=474...
December 7, 2024 at 9:49 PM
#FRAConference Paper #1
Navid Neshan: “When Political Connections Backfire: Social Protests, Asset Damage, and Firms' Response”
Politically connected firms in Iran as the target of destruction by protestors in 2019.
ssrn.com/abstract=474...
Navid Neshan: “When Political Connections Backfire: Social Protests, Asset Damage, and Firms' Response”
Politically connected firms in Iran as the target of destruction by protestors in 2019.
ssrn.com/abstract=474...
The problem with white backgrounds is that it makes it waaaay harder to visualize The Matrix.
I program on a physical DEC VT100 terminal, so it’s moot anyway.
I program on a physical DEC VT100 terminal, so it’s moot anyway.
November 16, 2024 at 3:17 PM
The problem with white backgrounds is that it makes it waaaay harder to visualize The Matrix.
I program on a physical DEC VT100 terminal, so it’s moot anyway.
I program on a physical DEC VT100 terminal, so it’s moot anyway.
I’m a happy Mac user, but I don’t think I’m wrong.
November 14, 2024 at 9:22 PM
I’m a happy Mac user, but I don’t think I’m wrong.
Feels good to be right, I guess...
November 13, 2024 at 6:35 PM
Feels good to be right, I guess...
📉📈 #EconSky
Anyone want to do a thread of interesting office scripophilia?
This is a complete set of Argentine Peso Ley, 1 to 1 million, I got from a street vendor in Buenos Aires.
(The Aztec calendar was given to me by an accounting prof in undergrad)
Anyone want to do a thread of interesting office scripophilia?
This is a complete set of Argentine Peso Ley, 1 to 1 million, I got from a street vendor in Buenos Aires.
(The Aztec calendar was given to me by an accounting prof in undergrad)
October 10, 2023 at 3:57 PM
📉📈 #EconSky
Anyone want to do a thread of interesting office scripophilia?
This is a complete set of Argentine Peso Ley, 1 to 1 million, I got from a street vendor in Buenos Aires.
(The Aztec calendar was given to me by an accounting prof in undergrad)
Anyone want to do a thread of interesting office scripophilia?
This is a complete set of Argentine Peso Ley, 1 to 1 million, I got from a street vendor in Buenos Aires.
(The Aztec calendar was given to me by an accounting prof in undergrad)
I loooooove fat bear week!
Bring ‘em on!
Bring ‘em on!
October 5, 2023 at 2:02 AM
I loooooove fat bear week!
Bring ‘em on!
Bring ‘em on!
That escalated quickly.
I put the odds of a confusing screw-up installing Hakeem Jeffries as speaker at 1-in-10.
They'd reverse it of course, but it would be super funny.
I put the odds of a confusing screw-up installing Hakeem Jeffries as speaker at 1-in-10.
They'd reverse it of course, but it would be super funny.
October 3, 2023 at 9:58 PM
That escalated quickly.
I put the odds of a confusing screw-up installing Hakeem Jeffries as speaker at 1-in-10.
They'd reverse it of course, but it would be super funny.
I put the odds of a confusing screw-up installing Hakeem Jeffries as speaker at 1-in-10.
They'd reverse it of course, but it would be super funny.
Saw The Pauses at the Georgia Theater. ‘Twas dope.
#ThePauses
#ThePauses
October 1, 2023 at 10:48 PM
Saw The Pauses at the Georgia Theater. ‘Twas dope.
#ThePauses
#ThePauses
Oh, alright BlueSky, you win. That is pretty cool...
September 20, 2023 at 2:41 PM
Oh, alright BlueSky, you win. That is pretty cool...