The Efficient Market Hypothesis and its Application to Stock Markets (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783640743766)

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Investment and Finance, grade: 1.7, The FOM University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, language: English, abstract: Especially after the 90ies, where the stock markets raised enormously, many private investors joined the stock market and were blended by abnormal profits and neglected possible losses. The same behavior could be observed before the Financial Crisis became reality. But each endless raising stock market would finally collapse, because stock prices are randomly and only driven by relevant news. The adjustment to the news is quickly. This is the theoretical argumentation of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH), which will be evaluated in this paper. The author gives an overview about the EMH by explaining the basic principles and its mathematical formulation. The practical part evaluated the EMH on selected examples, where the theory could only be partly approved.

Author: Sebastian Harder
ISBN-10: 3640743768
ISBN-13: 9783640743766
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Language: English
Published: 11/11/2010
Pages: 64
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.21lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.15d