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There are many conflicting interpretations of security prices and price determination in financial markets. They range from academic theories based on efficient markets and rational expectations hypotheses, to more traditional methods of fundamental analysis, to theories of quot;valuequot; and...

It is often objected that we cannot use mathematical methods in finance because (1) finance is dominated by unpredictable unique events (the black swans), (2) there are qualitative effects that cannot be quantified, and (3) the laws themselves of finance keep on changing. In this paper we...

It is often objected that we cannot use mathematical methods in finance because (1) finance is dominated by unpredictable unique events (the black swans), (2) there are qualitative effects that cannot be quantified, and (3) the laws themselves of finance keep on changing. In this paper we...