Capital Ideas and Market Realities

Capital Ideas and Market Realities Option Replication, Investor Behavior, and Stock Market Crashes

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Publisher's Synopsis

Bruce Jacobs sifts through the history of modern finance, from the efficient market hypothesis to behavioral psychology and chaos theory, to determine the cause of recent market crashes.

  • Includes a Foreword from Nobel Laureate Harry M. Markowitz.
  • Showcases the expertise of an author who identified and predicted the causes of 1987, 1997 and 1998 crashes.
  • Explains the risks of little-understood option replication.
  • Offers chapter summaries, appendices and a glossary.

Book information

ISBN: 9780631215554
Publisher: Wiley
Imprint: Wiley Blackwell
Pub date:
DEWEY: 332.642
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 170
Weight: 582g
Height: 228mm
Width: 154mm
Spine width: 21mm