Yearly Archives: 2013

DeLong and Krugman: Legitimate BitCoin Bashers or Political Punditry?

Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman have joined in the bitcoin conversation: Watching Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Etc... http://equitablegrowth.org/2013/12/28/1466/watching-bitcoin-dogecoin-etc Bitcoin is Evil: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/28/bitcoin-is-evil/?_r=0 DeLong starts his tirade with [...]

AlphaBet ETFs

Vanguard's attempt at satire. Vanguard is expanding its ETF lineup with the introduction of the AlphaBet series of ETFs, an innovation in the ever-growing ETF [...]

Is Volatility for Misguided Geeks?

Warren Buffett doesn’t like it when people use volatility to measure risk. He succinctly describes his criticism: We bought The Washington Post Company at a [...]

What is Behavioral Finance?

Behavioral finance means a lot of things to a lot of people. In this short piece I'll outline what "behavioral finance" means to academic researchers. [...]

Are NFL Betting Markets Inefficient?

An intra-week efficiency analysis of bookie-quoted NFL betting lines in NYC Thomas W. Miller Jr. and David E. Rapach A version of the paper can [...]

Quant Jocks and Tire Kickers

I just love the title of this paper... A job market paper for a PhD student (Jane Zhao) who was on the market a few [...]

Ben Graham Cigar Butt Hunting–Size Matters

Interesting paper: https://faculty.biu.ac.il/~lauteb/data_794/Ben_Graham.pdf Abstract: The study demonstrates how size controls can alter the outlook of an investment strategy. The Ben Graham net current asset value rule [...]

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