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Titel:   Beast on Wall Street
Reihe:   Prentice Hall
Autor:   Robert A. Haugen
Verlag:   Prentice Hall
Einband:   Softcover
Auflage:   1
Sprache:   Englisch
Seiten:   160
Erschienen:   Juli 1998
ISBN13:   9780130800787
ISBN10:   0-13-080078-3

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Beast on Wall Street

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An effective supplement for courses on investments, capital markets, and behavioral finance, this book will be useful and interesting at the undergraduate and graduate level. It provides investment students with a refreshing and enjoyable dialog-based insight into the reasons and forces behind volatility.

Features
  • Shows how price-driven volatility explains many of the mysteries associated with stock price behavior - i.e.,

    • The excess volatility problem of Shiller. Pg.___

    • The equity premium puzzle of Mehra and Prescot. Pg.___

    • Why professionals have a difficult time beating the market. Pg.___

    • The private information hypothesis of French and Roll. Pg.___

    • The low power of economic variables in explaining stock returns. Pg.___

    • The behavior of closed-end investment company discounts. Pg.___

  • Makes a case for the fact that price-driven volatility is (a) the largest component of stock volatility and (b) that it is unstable. Pg.___

    • Price-driven volatility creates a permanent drag on economic activity. Moreover, dramatic increases in this component of volatility may result in major disruptions in economic activity. This likely happened on 1930 and may be happening in Asian market now.

  • Though easy to read, can still be used at the Ph.D. level.
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Table of Contents

PART I: THE SEVEN MYSTERIES OF THE STOCK MARKET

1. Stock Prices Are Too Volatile
2. Stock Volatility is Too Unstable
3. Noise in the Market - Silence on the Street
4. The Silence After the Closing Bell
5. Going Global Extends the Length of Your Trading Day and the Risk of Your Stock
6. The Case of Vanishing Volatility
7. Stocks Selling Cheap - Strange Behavior of Closed-End Investment Companies

PART II: NINETEEN-THIRTY

Fat Cats.
The Eastern Express.
Bullets.
What's This Truman Loomin'?
Premonition of Doom.
Tower of Power.
Operation Poison Pill.
Bad Fellow Bellow.
Epilogue.

PART III: SOLUTIONS

Synthesis.
Implications.
Final Words.
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