Pandora's Risk Uncertainty at the Core of Finance |
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| Author:
| Osband, Kent |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-15172-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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| Imprint: | Columbia Business School Publishing |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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For the most part, markets don't trade on changes in risk. They trade on changes in beliefs about risk, and in the process, markets unite, stretch, and occasionally defy beliefs. Recognizing this truth would make a world of difference in investing. But belittling uncertainty has created a rift between financial theory and practice and within finance theory itself, misguiding regulation and stoking huge financial imbalances.
Sparking a revolution in the mindset of the...
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For the most part, markets don't trade on changes in risk. They trade on changes in beliefs about risk, and in the process, markets unite, stretch, and occasionally defy beliefs. Recognizing this truth would make a world of difference in investing. But belittling uncertainty has created a rift between financial theory and practice and within finance theory itself, misguiding regulation and stoking huge financial imbalances.
Sparking a revolution in the mindset of the investment professional, Kent Osband recasts the market as a learning machine rather than a knowledge machine. The market continually errs, corrects itself, and makes new errors. Respecting that process, without idolizing it, will promote wiser investment, trading, and regulation. With uncertainty embedded at its core, Osband's rational approach points to a finance theory worthy of twenty-first-century investing.