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Wall Street revalued : imperfect markets and inept central bankers / Andrew Smithers.

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Lippincott Library HG4910 .S565 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Smithers, Andrew.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Capital market--United States.
Capital market.
United States.
Monetary policy--United States.
Monetary policy.
Finance--United States.
Finance.
Banks and banking, Central--United States.
Banks and banking, Central.
Physical Description:
x, 246 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 2 Synopsis 15
Chapter 3 Interest Rate Levels and the Stock Market 25
Chapter 4 Interest Rate Changes and Share Price Changes 37
Chapter 5 Household Savings and the Stock Market 41
Chapter 6 A Moderately rather than a Perfectly Efficient Market 49
Chapter 7 The Efficient Market Hypothesis 57
Chapter 8 Testing the Imperfectly Efficient Market Hypothesis 67
Chapter 9 Other Claims for Valuing Equities 81
Chapter 10 Forecasting Returns without Using Value 91
Chapter 11 Valuing Stock Markets by Hindsight Combined with Subsequent Returns 97
Chapter 12 House Prices 105
Chapter 13 The Price of Liquidity - The Return for Holding Illiquid Assets 109
Chapter 14 The Return on Equities and the Return on Equity Portfolios 115
Chapter 15 The General Undesirability of Leveraging Equity Portfolios 121
Chapter 16 A Rare Exception to the Rule against Leverage 131
Chapter 17 Profits are Overstated 137
Chapter 18 Intangibles 145
Chapter 19 Accounting Issues 159
Chapter 20 The Impact on q 171
Chapter 21 Problems with Valuing the Markets of Developing Economies 175
Chapter 22 Central Banks' Response to Asset Prices 181
Chapter 23 The Response to Asset Prices from Investors, Fund Managers and Pension Consultants 191
Chapter 24 International Imbalances 195
Chapter 25 Summing Up 197.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780470750056
0470750057
OCLC:
354854338

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