S. W. Black, H. H. Kelejian; The Formulation of the Dependent Variable in the Wage Equation1, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 39, Issue 1, 1 January 1972

Unfortunately Professors Arditti and Levy (A-L) in their comment published in this issue of this journal did not realize that the determination of the investor optimum in my paper [1] was simultaneous with respect to the three parameters, the mean and the variance and the third moment of portfolio returns. When the nth moment was introduced, it was assumed that the investor chooses on the basis of all n parameters — the mean, second moment, third moment, etc. — through the nth moment.

Michael H. Hopewell, Comment: A Model of Capital Asset Risk, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 7, No. 2, Supplement: Outlook for the Securities Industry (Mar., 1972), pp. 1673-1677

Despite the enormous attention received by the single-period mean-variance model in the literature, its structural relationship to the empirical world is still largely unexplored. The purpose of this note is to show that when certain consistency requirements and equilibrium conditions in the financial markets are taken into account, the collective judgment of the present literature concerning the mean-variance approach is in some respects too lenient and in other respects too harsh. In addition, it will be noted that the mean-variance model can only achieve consistency with the von Neumann-Morgenstern postulates and absolute preference (also known as first-order stochastic dominance) at the price of a severe upper bound on the risk aversion that can be possessed by the decision maker.

This paper is a selective review of the received theory of financial institutions with some suggestions regarding future research on this topic. The major emphasis is placed on the positive economic theory of these firms. Financial institutions are considered to be firms that supply financial securities and contracts held as assets by other sectors of the economy and that use the proceeds of these sales to finance the purchase of financial securities and contracts which are the liabilities of other economic units. The theory discussed here is stripped of much of the regulatory and legal framework surrounding financial institutions. The primary reason for so limiting the scope of this paper is a conviction that a reasonably complete model of a simple financial institution is a necessary precursor to useful models of the positive economic behavior of financial institutions in any specific legal, regulatory, and operational framework. While recognizing that no tractable model of a financial institution is likely to be so general as to avoid the problem of model specificity, I take the view that many of the questions asked in the literature would be better answered in less specific models, i.e., in models capable of explaining additional important aspects of the behavior of the financial institution in question.

Journal Article Optimum Development in a Dual Economy Get access N. H. Stern N. H. Stern St Catherine's College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, April 1972, Pages 171–184, https://doi.org/10.2307/2296869 Published: 01 April 1972

Auditing, Sampling plan, Representative sampling, Preventive Sampling

J. W. Elliott, H. L. Uphoff, Predicting the Near Term Profit and Loss Statement with an Econometric Model: A Feasibility Study, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 10, No. 2 (Autumn, 1972), pp. 259-274

Accounting Principles Board, Oil and Gas, Equity valuation, Efficient market Hypothesis