The Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research - Working Paper Abstracts Welcome to the Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research, an independently managed site at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania . Listed below are the abstracts for all of the working papers for this year.
Some problems are both tractable and important, and so they are heavily studied and properly so.
Some are tractable but unimportant, and they are often studied to an appalling degree. And some are intractable but important and these are largely neglected. That is more regrettable. Of these, one of the most important and least tractable is the problem of financial disorder. Irwin Friend has never shied away from messy problems, if they were important.