This essay looks at the bidirectional relationship between financial history and financial economics. It begins by giving a brief history of financial economics by outlining the main topics of interest to financial economists. It then documents and explains the increasing influence of financial...

This paper attempts to formalise the effect of demographic variables like marital status, gender, occupation and age on the source of investment advice which in turn affect the herd behaviour of investors and probability of investment in near future. Further, postulations have been made for most...

This article studies the Chilean Stock Market's efficiency. To corroborate efficiency, we use a partial equilibrium model for financial asset pricing. We contrast between observed and expected Chilean stock price volatility under an efficient stock market framework. For the statistical analysis,...

In this paper we analyze the Chilean Stock Market's efficiency level. The efficiency concept, relates financial asset prices, the outcome from investment decisions, with all the information available to economic agents in their rational economic decision making process. To corroborate the stock...

The present paper reviews two fundamental investing paradigms, which have had a substantial impact on the manner investors tend to develop their own strategies. specifically, the study elaborates on efficient market hypothesis (emh), which, despite remaining most prominent and popular until the...

We develop a learning rule that generalises the well known fading memory learning in the sense that the weights attached to the available time series data are not constant and are updated in light of the forecast error(s). The underlying idea is that confidence in the available data will be low...

We estimate in this paper a non probabilistic Markovien model of stocks prices with an evolutionary selection of heterogeneous strategies. We chose to proceed by estimation relating on 27 companies from the CAC 40 and the composite index corresponding to these 27 companies to avoid the risk of...

We estimate in this paper a non probabilistic Markovien model of stock prices with an evolutionary selection of heterogeneous strategies. It is a model proposed by Brock and Hommes (1997, 1998) and improved later by Boswijk and al. (2007). Indeed, the latter propose one of the few estimations...