Tuesday, November 25

Efficient Markets and its Requirements

Efficient market:
Market that prices of securities reflect all available information.

Requirements for market efficiency:
· large number of profit maximizing, independent buyers and sellers
· random order of new information
· rapid adjustment of price expectations in response to news, not assume correctly adjust but are unbiased
· risk reflected in security prices and returns. If assumptions not holdm, excess returns are possible.

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