Although there are many stock market anomalies which the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) finds difficult to explain, it also has its strengths, and so far no alternative hypothesis has been developed which can explain what the EMH explains but which can also do a better job in explaining the...

This paper aims to deliver a comprehensive analysis of the theories and concepts that have formed the foundational link between two separate academic fields: finance and economics, resulting in the emergent field of financial economics. The main schools of thought can be divided, with a...

Through extending a standard Grossman and Stiglitz (1980) noisy rational expectations economy by a heterogeneous signal structure with signal-specific differences in uncertainty, we show that price momentum as well as reversal are not intrinsically at odds with rational behavior. Differences in...