TheFreeDictionary.com Expands with Financial Glossary by Financial Authority Campbell R. Harvey
Farlex, Inc., publisher of TheFreeDictionary.com, today announced it has added Campbell R. Harvey's Hypertextual Finance Glossary, the world's most comprehensive financial glossary, to its web site. Harvey, a renowned finance expert and J. Paul Sticht Professor of International Business at Duke University, provides concise definitions of 8,000 terms along with 18,000 useful links.
Huntingdon Valley, PA (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) May 25, 2005 -- Farlex, Inc., publisher of leading online reference
site TheFreeDictionary.com, today announced it has added Campbell R. Harvey's
Hypertextual Finance Glossary, the world's most comprehensive financial
glossary, to its web site. The new reference resource includes definitions for
more than 8,000 terms from the world of banking and investing, providing users
with thorough and reliable meanings to all the most common, and even uncommon,
financial terms.
Dr. Campbell R. Harvey is a recognized authority in
investment theory and economics. Currently the J. Paul Sticht Professor of
International Business at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Dr.
Harvey is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Author of more than 100 scholarly articles and
books, Dr. Harvey's research is often presented at international
conferences.
Harvey is also editor of the Review of Financial Studies,
one of the most respected financial periodicals, and associate editor of the
Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Empirical Finance, the Journal of
Fixed Income and other leading industry publications. He frequently serves as a
consultant to some of the world's leading asset management and consulting
firms.
“Dr. Campbell Harvey has created an essential, superbly-researched
online reference through his Hypertextual Finance Glossary. We're pleased to be
able to provide this lexicon to the many users of TheFreeDictionary.com,” said
Nick Simonov, president of Farlex, Inc. “Not only is this collection the most
complete work of its kind, but also, through its cross-reference capability, it
provides quick and comprehensive explanations for users.”
The 8,000 terms
found in the Hypertextual Finance Glossary are supplemented by over 18,000 links
that allow individuals to learn intuitively. By just clicking on a linked word
in a definition, the user is taken directly to the definition for that term,
providing added clarity and richness to the original definition.
“While
the Hypertextual Finance Glossary is suitable for professionals, the general
public can easily understand and benefit from its definitions,” said Dr. Harvey.
“By expanding the availability of the glossary to TheFreeDictionary.com, a
broader cross-section of users will have access to its information.” The
Hypertextual Finance Glossary is frequently consulted by staffers at The New
York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, CNN-Money and Yahoo, among
other organizations. The glossary joins Dr. Harvey's other well-known reference
work, The New York Times Dictionary of Money and Investing, co-written with
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Gretchen Morgenson, as primary tools in the
world of financial journalism.
TheFreeDictionary.com, the World Wide
Web's premier free online dictionary, offers over one million original entries
in an easy-to-navigate, user-friendly format. In addition to the Hypertextual
Finance Glossary, TheFreeDictionary.com boasts definitions and articles from
various dictionaries and encyclopedias specializing in the fields of medicine,
technology and finance. The highly-regarded site also offers several general
interest encyclopedias and other useful research tools.
For more
information, or to conduct a search, visit www.thefreedictionary.com.
About
TheFreeDictionary.com:
Launched in the spring of 2003, www.TheFreeDictionary.com has quickly grown to become one of
the best reference sources on the Web. From its beginnings as a simple
dictionary of everyday terms, TheFreeDictionary.com has incorporated medical,
legal, and computer dictionaries, a thesaurus, an encyclopedia, a literature
reference library and a search engine, all in one place. A prime online vehicle
for advertisers wishing to reach active information seekers,
TheFreeDictionary.com was accessed by more than 100 million visitors in
2004.
About Farlex, Inc.:
Farlex, Inc. (www.farlex.com) is an
independent, privately held provider of online reference products based in
Huntingdon Valley, Pa. Founded in 2004, Farlex, Inc. provides innovative,
easy-to-use reference and learning tools. Farlex's flagship web sites, www.TheFreeDictionary.com and www.TheFreeLibrary.com,
contain about one million pages of books and reference information from the
world's most respected sources.
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