The latest issue of CHEER (Computers in Higher Education Economics
Review) is now online on the Economics LTSN site:

http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/cheer/ch14_1/contents.htm

>From Guy Judge's editorial:

"There are two refereed papers in this issue of CHEER, both with a
flavour of finance about them. Michael Osborne shows how a computer
algebra program like Mathcad, Mathematica, Maple or Matlab can be used
to help visualise financial concepts such as the internal rate of return
that fall into the complex plane when expressed algebraically. Then
David Smith looks at the potential of spreadsheets such as Excel for
conducting simulation studies when exploring risk in investment
appraisal. 

  In our short note section Martin Poulter, Libby Miller and Emma Place
announce the arrival of the Internet Economist, a new on-line "teach
yourself" tutorial on Internet information skills for economists. Martin
has also written a short note in which he unravels many of the many
acronyms that have crept into CHEER in the last few years. 

  Kate Garland reports on the CHI2000 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems that took place in The Hague earlier this year. We
also include a special two page search-by-subject guide for economists
prepared by members of the International Bibliography of the Social
Sciences (IBSS). 

  In our software reviews section, together with Yasushi Ninomiya, I
review the new release of the STAMP program for Structural Time Series
modelling."

The full editorial, linked to the individual articles, is available at
http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/cheer/ch14_1/editorial.htm

Enjoy!
-- 
Martin Poulter, Web Development Officer, Economics LTSN
http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/

Based at the Institute for Learning and Research Technology
University of Bristol, BS8 1HH
http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/



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