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Keen Behavioural Finance 2011 Lecture 04 Actual Finance Markets Behaviour Part 2

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Eugene Fama was an enthusiastic promoter of CAPM and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, arguing that despite their absurd assumptions, the data supported the theories. But was this a fluke, the result of the narrow data range he used–from 1950 till 1966? He has since disowned the theory in 2004, stating that “the theory has never ...

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Eugene Fama was an enthusiastic promoter of CAPM and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, arguing that despite their absurd assumptions, the data supported the theories. But was this a fluke, the result of the narrow data range he used–from 1950 till 1966?



He has since disowned the theory in 2004, stating that “the theory has never been an empirical success”, and that “most applications of the theory are invalid”. But somehow these honest statements don’t seem to have made it into the finance textbooks.



Steve Keen
Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born, British-based economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay.

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