SAMUELSON’S DICTUM AND THE STOCK MARKET BY JEEMAN JUNG and ROBERT J. SHILLER COWLES FOUNDATION PAPER NO. 1183 COWLES FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH IN ECONOMICS YALE UNIVERSITY Box 208281 New Haven‚ Connecticut 06520-8281 2006 http://cowles.econ.yale.edu/ SAMUELSON’S DICTUM AND THE STOCK MARKET JEEMAN JUNG and ROBERT J. SHILLER* Samuelson has offered the dictum that the stock market is ‘‘micro efficient’’ but ‘‘macro inefficient.’’ That is‚ the efficient markets hypothesis works much better
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the Stock Market Crash The end of World War I heralded a new era in the United States. It was an era of enthusiasm‚ confidence‚ and optimism (Rosenberg). It is in such times of optimism that people took their savings out from under their mattresses and out of banks and invested it in the stock market. With everyone’s money in the market‚ the 1929 stock market crash took a heavy toll on everyone. This crash was a shattering event that went on to shape this country. Even though the market crash
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CHRIST UNIVERSITY BANGALORE IV BBA B ASSIGNMENT DATE OF SUBMISSION: 25.02.2011- FRIDAY 1.a) X Ltd. issues Rs.50‚000 8% debentures at par. The tax rate applicable to the company is 50%. Compute the cost of debt capital. b) Y Ltd. issues Rs.50‚000 8% debentures at a premium of 10%. The tax rate applicable to the company is 60%. Compute cost of debt capital
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Examining market efficiency in India: an empirical analysis of the Random Walk Hypothesis Alan Harper South University Zhenhu Jin Valparasio University ABSTRACT This study tries to determine whether the Indian stock market is efficient by examining if the stock returns follow a random walk. Following previous studies‚ we use autocorrelation‚ the Box-Ljung test statistics and the run test and find that the Indian stock market was not efficient in the weak form during the testing period.
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during the stock market crash. People lost their jobs‚ businesses were forced to close‚ houses went up for sale‚ and all hope was lost. Furthermore‚ the crash of the stock market affected many different aspects of the world including citizens‚ the United States economy‚ and places outside the United States tremendously. At the time when the stock market crashed President Hoover was in office and therefore blamed for the start and most of the effects of the stock market crash. In 1929 the stock market
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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was devastating to the American economy‚ which up to that point had been thriving with ever increasing economic returns for investors and a bull market‚ which encouraged buying. The cause of the crash has been attributed to many things‚ but there is one underlying factor to all of the possible hypotheses‚ and that is the fact that more people in the population had more disposable income in the years leading up to the crash. Those people in the population who had moved
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gov/timeseries/LNU04000000?years_option=all_years&periods_option=specific_periods&periods=Annual+Data http://financeandinvestments.blogspot.com/2011/05/historical-annual-returns-for-s-500.html Jain‚ Rajiv‚ and Daniel Kranson. "The Myth of GDP and Stock Market Returns."2009. Web. 4 Mar. 2012. <http://www.virtus.com/vsitemanager/Upload/Docs/6141_GDPwhitepaper.pdf>. Rao‚ Rama. "Forecasting Future Returns." Financial Physics. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 5 Mar 2012. <http://www.financialphysics.net/future
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The stock market is perfectly competitive because there are a very large number of groups in the market. The stock market‚ as we know it‚ is a global community that consists of four different groups: public corporations; market makers; buyers; and sellers. Public corporations are businesses that offer shares‚ or ownership‚ to anyone willing to pay money for them. Buyers are investors who want to purchase ownership; sellers are shareholders who want to get rid of their stock in exchange for cash.
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topic of the stock market crash‚ is one that brings many theories and ideas to the true cause of the American economy downfall in the late 1920s. Foremost‚ the American economy suffered drastically following the conclusion of WWI‚ many lived under the assumption that the new era of the 1920s was full of economic opportunities‚ which caused over production of goods creating lasting effects on the economy. In addition‚ Americans had a false sense of security in local banking systems‚ stock prices soared
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although undefined‚ there have been major advancements in technology in recent years regarding software and hardware in the world of business and medicine. These advancements have revolutionized how money changes hands in the world’s financial markets‚ how major surgeries are conducted‚ and how technology is used in the education of today’s youth. Electronic Platforms Today‚ most securities and options traders trade from an electronic platform or even multiple platforms. Even the most common
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