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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

-Isaac Newton

 

Notable Works


The Theory of Speculation (1900)

Louis Bachelier

 

The Variation of Certain Speculative Prices (1963)

Benoit Mandelbrot


The Behavior of Stock Market Prices (1965)

Eugene F. Fama

 

The Distribution of Share Price Changes (1972)

Peter D. Praetz


Option Pricing When Underlying Stock Returns are Discontinuous (1975)

Robert C. Merton

 

Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run? (2011)

Lubos Pastor and Robert F. Stambaugh

 

Probability, Risk, and Extremes (2017)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb