Foreword |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Chronology of Major Events |
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PART I BUBBLES AND EXPERIMENTS |
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Step into the Wind Tunnel |
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7 | (4) |
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11 | (6) |
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17 | (22) |
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Capturing the Human Element |
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19 | (1) |
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Rationality and Induced Value at Your Corner Grocer |
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20 | (4) |
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24 | (3) |
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27 | (4) |
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31 | (8) |
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39 | (20) |
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The Law of Supply and Demand |
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42 | (6) |
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48 | (2) |
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50 | (5) |
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Perfect Without Knowledge |
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55 | (4) |
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59 | (28) |
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59 | (8) |
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67 | (4) |
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Speculators Enter the Laboratory |
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71 | (6) |
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77 | (6) |
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83 | (4) |
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87 | (22) |
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Asset Valuation and Efficient Markets |
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88 | (4) |
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From Noise to Irrationality |
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92 | (4) |
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96 | (5) |
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Bubbles: Rational or Irrational? |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (7) |
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PART II INSIDE MARKETS: OPTIONS, INFORMATION, AND LIQUIDITY |
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109 | (18) |
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110 | (2) |
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The Quantitative Finance Revolution |
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112 | (6) |
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It's There Until You Need It |
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118 | (3) |
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121 | (6) |
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All the World's an Option |
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127 | (26) |
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How Do You Value an Option? |
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129 | (7) |
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136 | (5) |
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The Universal Nature of Options |
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141 | (3) |
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Options Rule on Wall Street |
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144 | (4) |
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Spreads and the Risk of Default |
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148 | (1) |
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Liquidity: The Ultimate Option |
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149 | (4) |
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The Invisible Hand Discovers Prices |
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153 | (18) |
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Price Impact and Market Manipulations |
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156 | (4) |
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Toward Instantaneous Price Discovery |
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160 | (3) |
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One-Sided Auction Markets |
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163 | (2) |
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165 | (3) |
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168 | (3) |
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Sending Signals and Keeping Score |
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171 | (22) |
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Lemons Squeeze the Market Mechanism |
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172 | (3) |
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The Theory of Market Signaling |
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175 | (4) |
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Learning to Signal in the Laboratory |
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179 | (4) |
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183 | (2) |
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185 | (3) |
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The Limits to Aggregation |
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188 | (5) |
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It All Comes Down to Money |
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193 | (14) |
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Money, Expectations, and Illusion |
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196 | (5) |
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201 | (1) |
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202 | (5) |
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PART III GRIDLOCK AND THE ROAD TO SMART MARKETS |
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The Market Is Tied Up in Knots |
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207 | (18) |
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209 | (6) |
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215 | (3) |
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218 | (2) |
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Smart Enough to Weave a Basket |
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220 | (5) |
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Making Markets Intelligent |
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225 | (18) |
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Adding Baskets to the Market |
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227 | (3) |
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230 | (5) |
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Recombinant Securities Markets |
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235 | (1) |
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236 | (2) |
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Breaking the Law of a Single Price |
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238 | (5) |
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243 | (18) |
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244 | (2) |
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Location, Location, Location and Synergy, Too |
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246 | (5) |
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Combinatorial Auctions: Optimization on the Fly |
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251 | (2) |
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NASA's Awesome Wind Tunnel |
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253 | (3) |
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Learning by Doing at the FCC |
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256 | (5) |
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261 | (10) |
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263 | (2) |
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265 | (3) |
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268 | (3) |
Notes |
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271 | (16) |
Bibliography |
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287 | (16) |
Index |
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