Many case studies can be introduced by working through analytical mistakes that were made in the U.S. housing crisis. As for all of the cases, a write-up is provided followed by videos and excel files. The excel exercises for the housing crisis discussion include techniques to download economic data into spreadsheets and how to create a financial model. Videos that demonstrate the analytical analysis are included in the table above. The first file below is a database that can be updated and includes various statistics used to evaluate the sub-prime crisis that brought down the whole world economy.
Chapter 2.pdf
CDO Exercise 1.xlsm
CDO Exercise 2.xlsm
CDO Exercise 3 – Break Even.xlsm
Housing Data.xlsm
| Subject | Excel File | Video Link | Chapter Reference | Page Reference | ||||
| Creating Structured Finance Model | CDO Exercise 1 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6giYxjcmCUU | Chapter 2 | 40 | ||||
| Two Way Data Table with Structured Finance Model | CDO Exercise 2 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGnjWYW-zIc | Chapter 2 | 40 | ||||
| One Way Data Table with Structured Finance Model | CDO Exercise 2 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tip6i7pYEt4 | Chapter 2 | 40 | ||||
| Break Even Analysis with Structured Finance Model | CDO Exercise 3 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSDpLt0-k3I | Chapter 2 | 40 | ||||
| Scenario Analysis with Structured Finance Model | CDO Exercise 4 | Chapter 2 | 40 | |||||
| Tornado Analysis with Structured Finance Model | CDO Exercise 5 | Chapter 2 | 40 | |||||
| Downloading Data on Saudi Stock Bubble | Saudi Stocks | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Sz6-iO-OQ | Chapter 2 | 40 | ||||
| Downloading Data on House Prices and Demand 1 | Housing Data 1 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-EJ2D1JVpM | Chapter 16 | 193 | ||||
| Clearing Sheets to Enable Updating of Data | Housing Data 1 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-e1zefhZoc | Chapter 16 | 193 | ||||
| Using Match, Index and Indirect to Summarize Downloaded Data | Housing Data | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgLSc2AvU-Y | Chapter 16 | 193 | ||||
| Creating Single Graph with #N/A and Index | Housing Data | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGDDr7egXuo | Chapter 16 | 193 | ||||
| Adjusting Nominal Data for Inflation | Housing Data | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2TM2VG72MU | Chapter 16 | 193 | ||||
| Creating Graph with multiple Series with TRUE/FALSE | Housing Data | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8k8LrJobX4 | Chapter 16 | 193 | ||||
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