David Backus

Teaching materials

I have an open source attitude toward teaching materials: anyone is welcome to the complete set of materials as long as they mention the source and agree not to develop them commercially. In most cases, the source includes not just me, but a collection of colleagues at NYU. What's posted is the basics, but if you'd like access to the source code, let me know and I'll send a compressed file of some sort. The NYU standard is now: notes in LaTeX (pdf's posted), slides in Powerpoint (sad to say), data in spreadsheets, statistics and figures generated by Stata. Some of this varies by subject. Any questions, let me know.

Courses and cases

• MBA Macroeconomics Notes (Roubini version | Zin version)
• MBA Microeconomics (NYU Stern)
• PhD International Macro (2009 version with Ruhl | 2004 version)
• Debt Instruments and Markets (MBA Course B40.3333)
• Advanced Fixed Income Analytics for Financial Professionals (MBA Course B40.3176)
• Notes on Bond Pricing for PhD students and advanced MBAs
• Case: Derivatives at Banc One (view abstract at CaseNet)
• Case: Banc One at the Crossroads (distributed by the NYU Salomon Center)