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Myron Scholes

Type: Person
Name: Myron Scholes
First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Financial Innovation vs. Economic Growth: Scholes and Reynolds vs. Grantham and Me
Richard Bookstaber submits: I participated in an Oxford-style debate at The Economists’ Buttonwood Gathering a couple of weeks ago. The proposition for the debate was Financial Innovation Boosts Economic Growth. On the pro side of the proposition ... [Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeki ... - 11/04/2009]
First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/22/2009 - 2 Documents
John Meriwether Is Really Launching A Third Hedge Fund
There really is no way to destroy your reputation in this industry, so long as your failures are spectacular.John Meriwether, who has already had two hedge funds blow up (LTCM being the most notable), is back for a third, according to FT . The, which ... [Business Insider - 10/22/2009]
First Reported 10/23/2009 - Updated 10/23/2009 - 1 Documents
Breathing New Life into Old Strategy: John Meriwether Is Back Again
By Chris McKhannI read today that John Meriwether is going to start a new fund--again.I love that this is the country of second chances (or third, in this case), but I am also a firm believer in Einstein's sentiment that the definition of insanity is ... [Seeking Alpha - 10/23/2009]
First Reported 10/23/2009 - Updated 10/23/2009 - 1 Documents
John Meriwether Returns. No, I Didn't Make this Up
John Meriwether (pic, left), the hedge fund manager and arbitrageur behind Long-Term Capital Management, is in the process of setting up a new hedge fund – his third.The move comes barely three months after Mr Meriwether decided to close his second fund ... [Seeking Alpha - 10/23/2009]
First Reported 10/23/2009 - Updated 10/23/2009 - 1 Documents
Mesdames et Messieurs, Faites vos Jeux...
Whether relative-value arbitrage is, as I think Myron Scholes once said, "using computers to suck up nickles on a global scale" or "using borrowed money to put a chip on 35 of the 36 roulette numbers and hoping for no zero/36" and in the long run profiting ... [J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - 10/23/2009]
First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/09/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Bookstaber, hater of CDS, to advise SEC
Rick Bookstaber announced on his blog yesterday that he will joining the SEC’s “Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation.” This is a welcome development. Bookstaber is the author of A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds and the Perils ... [Rolfe Winkler - Reuters - 11/09/2009]
First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Bookstaber to Advise SEC
Rick Bookstaber yesterday that he will joining the SECs Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation. This is a welcome development. Bookstaber is the author of He was part of an Oxford-style debate on that very subject at the Economists Buttonwood ... [Seeking Alpha - 11/10/2009]
First Reported 11/11/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 1 Documents
OTC derivatives risk
Market Data Efforts by US regulators to move privately traded derivatives to central clearing houses are unlikely to be a cure-all for the industry, and may increase systemic risk if exposures are dispersed among too many counterparties.Regulators ... [stuff.co.nz - 11/11/2009]
First Reported 11/13/2009 - Updated 11/13/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Debate on derivatives, clearinghouses continues
Derivatives are blamed for causing the failure of some major institutions during the past decade, including Enron and American International Group. But derivatives are too useful to eliminate, Nobel economist Myron Scholes said. Banning them would be ... [SmartBrief - 11/13/2009]
First Reported 06/18/2009 - Updated 06/18/2009 - 1 Documents
Business Books: When rational market models go awry
By Richard LeongNEW YORK, June 18 (Reuters) - The idea that markets behave rationally, which has dominated economic discourse for half a century, took a big hit in last year's credit crisis.If markets were efficient, the argument goes, housing prices ... [Reuters - 06/18/2009]
First Reported 10/15/2009 - Updated 10/15/2009 - 1 Documents
Gold Diggers Of 2008
A new play sticks it to greed-driven bankers on both sides of the Atlantic.We now issue a travel advisory for certain people if they are contemplating a trip to London--namely Stanford University economist Myron Scholes, former Federal Reserve Chairman ... [Forbes.com via MSN Money - 10/15/2009]
First Reported 10/16/2009 - Updated 10/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)
Turning a crisis into a drama
It is the six trillion dollar question. Just who is to blame for the financial crisis which brought banks to their knees, made investors reach for the Prozac and had ordinary people cutting holes in their mattress to store their cash?Playwright David ... [Interactive Investor Articles - 10/16/2009]

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...Myron Scholes, another Nobel prize-winner, says a ban would be a "luddite response that takes financial markets back decades." Because of the mayhem of the past year or so, lawmakers in America and Europe are on the point of giving derivatives markets their biggest shake-up since...
Over the Counter, out of Sight [CFO.com - 11/13/2009]
A mid-market price is halfway between a security's bid and offer price. "you have to set up a system that will close itself out efficiently and at no cost, that's the mechanism that has to go forward" said Scholes, speaking at a conference on derivatives at the New York University Stern School of Business held last week
OTC derivatives risk [stuff.co.nz - 11/11/2009]
Whether relative-value arbitrage is, as I think Myron Scholes once said, "using computers to suck up nickles on a global scale" or "using borrowed money to put a chip on 35 of the 36 roulette numbers and hoping for no zero/36" and in the long run profiting from the shield of limited...
Mesdames et Messieurs, Faites vos Jeux... [J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - 10/23/2009]

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Over the Counter, out of Sight [CFO.com - 11/13/2009]
Debate on derivatives, clearinghouses continues [SmartBrief - 11/13/2009]
OTC derivatives risk [stuff.co.nz - 11/11/2009]
Bookstaber to Advise SEC [Seeking Alpha - 11/10/2009]
Samasource Hosts the First Annual GiveWork Gala... [Street Insider - 11/06/2009]
Samasource Hosts the First Annual GiveWork Gala... [Business Technology - 11/06/2009]
John Meriwether Returns. No, I Didn't Make this Up [Seeking Alpha - 10/23/2009]
John Meriwether Is Back - Risk Must Be Too [Seeking Alpha - 10/23/2009]
Breathing New Life into Old Strategy: John Meri... [Seeking Alpha - 10/23/2009]
John Meriwether Is Really Launching A Third Hed... [Business Insider - 10/22/2009]
The Quiet Coup - by Economist Simon Johnson [Free Dominion - 10/20/2009]
Buttonwood Conference Update [Seeking Alpha - 10/18/2009]
Turning a crisis into a drama [Interactive Investor International - 10/18/2009]
Who killed the world economy? [Deccan Chronicle - 10/16/2009]
Turning a crisis into a drama [Interactive Investor Articles - 10/16/2009]
Are B-school Profs "Business Virgins"? [BNET - 10/16/2009]
Myron Scholes on the Markets [CNBC - 10/16/2009]
Hare raising issues [Observer - 10/15/2009]
Gold Diggers Of 2008 [Forbes.com via MSN Money - 10/15/2009]
Business Books: When rational market models go ... [Reuters - 06/18/2009]
Options 101: The Black Scholes Formula [Schaeffers Research - 04/27/2009]
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Bookstaber, hater of CDS, to advise SEC [Rolfe Winkler - Reuters - 11/09/2009]
Rick Bookstaber announced on his blog yesterday that he will joining the SEC’s “Division of Risk, Strategy and Financial Innovation.” This is a welcome development. ...
Financial Innovation vs. Economic Growth: Schol... [Financial Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeki ... - 11/04/2009]
Richard Bookstaber submits: I participated in an Oxford-style debate at The Economists’ Buttonwood Gathering a couple of weeks ago. The proposition for the debate ...
Does Financial Innovation promote Economic Growth? [Market Pipeline - 11/04/2009]
Posted on Rick Bookstaber's blog:I participated in an Oxford-style debate at The Economists’ Buttonwood Gathering a couple of weeks ago. The proposition for the ...
Mesdames et Messieurs, Faites vos Jeux... [J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All ... - 10/23/2009]
Whether relative-value arbitrage is, as I think Myron Scholes once said, "using computers to suck up nickles on a global scale" or "using borrowed money to put ...
John Meriwether Is Really Launching A Third Hed... [Clusterstock - 10/22/2009]
There really is no way to destroy your reputation in this industry, so long as your failures are spectacular. John Meriwether, who has already had two hedge funds ...
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