imported>Doug Williamson |
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| (EMH).
| | Same as the Efficient market hypothesis. |
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| The hypothesis that markets operate efficiently; that assets are fairly priced by the market mechanism to incorporate available information.
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| There are three forms of potential efficiency: the weak form, the semi-strong form and the strong form.
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| #The <u>weak form</u> states that past prices are no guide to future prices, so charting techniques cannot be used to make excess returns.
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| #The <u>semi-strong form</u> states that prices react to public information so that any form of analysis using publicly available information cannot be successful in consistently generating excess returns.
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| #The <u>strong form</u> states that even insider information cannot generate consistent excess returns.
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| Important implications of the efficient market hypothesis for financial managers include:
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| * Keeping the financial markets well-informed.
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| * Taking market price movements seriously.
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| * Not attempting to 'fine tune' the timing of security issues.
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| Also known as the Efficient markets hypothesis.
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| In practice, extreme market outturns occur more commonly than predicted by simple efficient markets theory.
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| As a consequence, the simplistic application of efficient markets theory to risk analysis will systematically:
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| * Overstate market stability, and
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| * Understate related market risks.
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| == See also == | | == See also == |
| * [[Asymmetry of information]]
| | * [[Efficient market hypothesis]] |
| * [[Efficiency]]
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| * [[Efficient market]] | |
| * [[Interest rate parity]]
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| * [[No free lunch]]
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| * [[Perfect competition]]
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| * [[Semi-strong market efficiency]]
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| * [[Strong form efficiency]]
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| * [[Weak form efficiency]]
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| * [[Fractal markets hypothesis]]
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