Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52235 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 16/2011
Publisher: 
Universität Witten/Herdecke, Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Witten
Abstract: 
It is shown that early research in modern financial economics had substantially been driven by the application of the research strategy of economics and the use of newly developed mathematical methods. For this purpose the professionalization of business education as a consequence of changes in the U.S. economy after Word War II is presented. The emergence of professional Journals in financial economics, similar to the academic culture including the trend of applying abstract mathematical reasoning and during the war developed methods like linear programming are highlighted. Also the meaning of Milton Friedman's 1953 essay The Methodology of Positive Economics for the dominance of abstract and prediction driven research in modern financial economics gets discussed. Finally, the emergence of Harry Markowitz's paper Portfolio Selection (1952) is used to substantiate the hypothesis.
Subjects: 
history of finance
portfolio theory
business schools
modern financial economics
modelling
theories of modern financial economics
risk management
positivism
professionalization
methodology of finance
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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