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Economics assumes that supply and demand do not determine prices in financial markets. Asset-pricing theory says prices in financial markets are determined by expected future cash flows rather than buying and selling dynamics. Therefore, stocks and bonds are mostly immune from supply and demand determining prices. This is nonsense.
As with the ancient Ptolemaic model of our solar system that assumed the earth was at the center, efficient pricing theory is increasingly complex and inaccurate. Its fundamental assumption is wrong.
By Nicholas M MitsakosEconomics assumes that supply and demand do not determine prices in financial markets. Asset-pricing theory says prices in financial markets are determined by expected future cash flows rather than buying and selling dynamics. Therefore, stocks and bonds are mostly immune from supply and demand determining prices. This is nonsense.
As with the ancient Ptolemaic model of our solar system that assumed the earth was at the center, efficient pricing theory is increasingly complex and inaccurate. Its fundamental assumption is wrong.