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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815632203321

Autore

Polillo Simone <1978->

Titolo

The ascent of market efficiency [[e-book] ] : finance that cannot be proven / / Simone Polillo [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-5039-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

332

Soggetti

Efficient market theory

Economics - Sociological aspects

Knowledge, Sociology of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Rhetoric of Market Efficiency : How Data Analysis Became Legitimate -- Collaborations and Market Efficiency : The Network of Financial Economics -- Winners and Losers in Financial Economics, or Fama versus Black : How Markets Became Efficient and Equilibrium was Defeated -- How Financial Economics Got Its Science.

Sommario/riassunto

'The Ascent of Market Efficiency' weaves together historical narrative and quantitative bibliometric data to detail the path financial economists took in order to form one of the central theories of financial economics - the influential efficient-market hypothesis - which states that the behaviour of financial markets is unpredictable.