Financial Economics Network (21 channels)

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

       Possible Posting: Feel free to repost.  Wayne




                         News Announcement
                    Financial Economics Network


                We now have twenty-one differnt channels
                        and over 1800 subscribers






If you have access to the information highway, Internet, and an interest
in financial economics, the Financial Economics Network is designed for
you. Financial Economics Network is a multi-channel electronic network for
scholars and interested individuals in investment banks, banks, companies,
government agencies, international agencies and universities. But there
are also channels for small investors and people interested in personal
finance.


Although the Network was formed less than a month ago, there are
already nearly 1,800 subscribers, with nearly 100 being added each week.
In less than a month, Financial Economics Network has become the largest
electronic network in the world linking people with scholarly and
practical interests in business and economics.


The Network consists of a master subscription, called AFA-FIN, with 21
channels. There are currently 18 channels open to AFA-FIN subscribers, with 3
additional ones coming on line in approximately two weeks. The channels
currently operating, which run the gamut of topics in financial economics,
are:


AFA-ACCT (Accounting and Finance)         AFA-INT  (International Finance)
AFA-AGE  (Gerontology Finance)            AFA-INV  (Investments)
AFA-AGRI (Agricultural Finance)           AFA-LE   (Law & Econ.)
AFA-BANK (Banking)                        AFA-MATH (Mathematical Finance)
AFA-CORP (Corporate Finance)              AFA-PUB  (Public Finance)
AFA-DER  (Derivatives)                    AFA-REAL (Real Estate)
AFA-ECMT (Econometrics and Finance)       AFA-S-IV (Small Investor)
AFA-EDU  (Education Finance)              AFA-SBUS (Small Business Finance)
AFA-HEAL (Health Finance)                 AFA-WA-R (Real Estate in WA state)


Planned channels are:
AFA-INS  (Insurance)                      AFA-MKTM (Market Microstructure)
AFA-PERS (Personal Finance)


We welcome and encourage individuals to suggest other channels which
might prove useful to you and our subscribers.


Financial Economics Network is all being run from a list server at
Washington State University. The server uses the Internet to connect
people from all over the world through electronic mail or e-mail. The
Network provides channels where announcements and messages of interest are
posted and ideas exchanged on topics of mutual interest.


Access to the Network is free. But you must request a subscription to be
included. Please contact Professor Wayne Marr (First Union Professor of
Banking at Clemson University). You may also subscribe by contacting
Professor John Trimble of the finance faculty at Washington State
University; his Internet address is trimble@vancouver.wsu.edu; telephone:
(206) 737-2039.  Professor Wayne Marr can be reached at his Internet
address: marrm@clemson.clemson.edu. Or you may call Professor Marr at
(803) 656-0796 (voice) or send a facsimile to (803) 653-5516 (fax).


Founders of the Financial Economics Network
Michael Jensen, Harvard University
Wayne Marr, Clemson University
John Trimble, Washington State University