An engine, not a camera : how financial models shape markets /

This pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, the author says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: MacKenzie, Donald A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
Colección:Inside technology.
Temas:
Capital market > Mathematical models.
Derivative securities > Mathematical models.
Financial crises > Mathematical models.
Financial crises > Case studies.
Marché financier > Modèles mathématiques.
Instruments dérivés (Finances) > Modèles mathématiques.
Crises financières > Modèles mathématiques.
Crises financières > Études de cas.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
Capital market > Mathematical models
Derivative securities > Mathematical models
Financial crises
Financial crises > Mathematical models
Finanztheorie
Kreditmarkt
Mathematisches Modell
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Kapitaalmarkt.
Effectenhandel.
Financiële crises.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
ECONOMICS/Finance
ECONOMICS/General
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Performing theory
  • 2. Transforming finance
  • 3. Theory and practice
  • 4. Tests, anomalies, and monsters
  • 5. Pricing options
  • 6. Pits, bodies, and theorems
  • 7. The fall
  • 8. Arbitrage
  • 9. Models and markets.

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