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Harris professor, a professor of finance, and the director of the laboratory for financial engineering at the mit sloan school of management. Lo expertly illustrates the shortcomings of current prevailing economic theories, showing us how finance is less like physics or math and more like a responsive and evolving organism not unlike ourselves. Based on evolutionary principles, the adaptive markets hypothesis implies that the degree of market efficiency is related to environmental factors characterizing market ecology such as the number of competitors in the market, the magnitude of profit opportunities available, and the adaptability of the market participants. This is not a pure finance book as it references several fields, ranging from evolution to psychology.
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Lo first proposed the adaptive markets hypothesis amh in 2004 as an alternative to the efficient markets hypothesis emh. Having been introduced to the efficient markets hypothesis as an economics ph. Drawing on psychology, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and other fields, adaptive markets shows that the theory of market efficiency isnt wrong. It combines principles of the wellknown and often controversial efficient market hypothesis with principles of.
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