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of Securities Market Efficiency ? W. Beaver, “What Should Be the FASB’s Objectives,” Journal of Accountancy (1973) ?Full disclosure, incl. acc. policies ?Accounting policies do not matter (unless cash flow effects) ?“Na239。 Financial Accounting Theory Chapter 4: Efficient Securities Markets 潘克勤 本章的結構 有效性 的含義 財務報告含義 CAPM 模型 信息不對稱 /內(nèi)部交易、逆向選擇 充分 披露 本章的目的 ? 證券市場是半強勢有效的! ?證券市場上每一種證券價格反映了已經(jīng)公開的所有信息 ?此時,證券價格就是內(nèi)在價值嗎? ?否!除非沒有內(nèi)部信息! ? 財務會計的用武之地 ?充分披露,讓證券價格接近內(nèi)在價值,增強市場配置資源的效率! ? 財務會計面臨挑戰(zhàn) ?其他信息渠道 Definition of Efficient Markets ? An efficient capital market is a market that is efficient in processing information. ? We are talking about an “informationally efficient” market, as opposed to a “transactionally efficient” market. In other words, we mean that the market quickly and correctly adjusts to new information. ? In an informationally efficient market, the prices of securities observed at any time are based on “correct” evaluation of all information available at that time. ? Therefore, in an efficient market, prices immediately and fully reflect available information. Definition of Efficient Markets (cont.) ? Professor Eugene Fama, who coined the phrase “efficient markets”, defined market efficiency as follows: ?In an efficient market, petition among the many intelligent participants leads to a situation where, at any point in time, actual prices of individual securities already reflect the effects of information based both on events that have already occurred and on events which, as of now, the market expects to take place in the future. ?In other words, in an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value. History ? Prior to the 1950’s it was generally believed that the use of fundamental or technical approaches could “beat the market” (though technical analysis has always been seen as something akin to voodoo). ? In t