Sunday, 27 September 2015

Notes on Jan Mossin's "Theory of Financial Markets"

Theory of Financial Markets
Jan Mossin
Published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., England Cliffs, New Jersey (1973)

The theory of financial has two principal objectives:
  • Explain and interpret phenomena in financial markets.
  • Assist management in formulating a company’s financial policy by providing useful analytical tools within a realistic theoretical framework


Maximization of the market value of the company’s equity
  • simultaneous interplay of sup ly and demand
  • relationships among individual investors’ portfolio decisions

equilibrium
The derivation of a market valuation formula:
   An explicit expression for the value of the firm in terms of characteristics of the probability distribution for its earning and other market parameters.

Walras model of equilibrium in commodity market, use of the central results is that a competitive equilibrium leads to an efficient, or Pareto-optimal.

the theory of decision making under uncertainty:
   To explain people’s choice among alternative choices of action in situations where an action does not uniquely determine the outcome.

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