Efficient Capital Markets: II
The Journal of FinancePublished 1 December 1991Open access
Eugene F. Fama
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Abstract
SEQUELSARE RARELY AS good as the originals, so I approach this review of the market efficiency literature with trepidation. The task is thornier than it was 20 years ago, when work on efficiency was rather new. The literature is now so large that a full review is impossible, and is not attempted here. Instead, I discuss the work that I find most interesting, and I offer my views on what we have learned from the research on market efficiency.
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