Paradigms Of Finance

There are six basic paradigms of finance

  • Market efficiency
  • Asymmetric information
  • NPV
  • Portfolio theory and the CAPM
  • Capital structure theory
  • Option pricing theory

All of these can in turn be reduced to one basic concept:

Arbitrage is not possible

Or more intuitively, TANSTAAFL.

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