FROP etc

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com
Fri Feb 18 00:00:35 PST 2000



>Roger Odisio:
>> ...
>> And I disagree with Laibman. Are you sure that's what he said? Did he
>> ever write that anywhere? Silly may be too kind of a word for such a
>> statement.


>No, it's quite correct. For an observation to refute a
>theory, there must be a theory as to why the observation is
>important and therefore refutes. As Einstein said, "theory
>tells us what we can observe." Phenomena must be ordered
>before they can mean anything. And so on.

Efficient market theory isn't really a "theory" in this sense -- it's an empirical claim about stock markets. There are numerous different and incompatible theories of the underlying "microstructure", most of which are at least consistent with "the efficient markets hypothesis".

dd

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