Ho John Lee’s Weblog

• EconPapers
  A front end portal for the RePEc collection of economics working papers and journal articles from over 400 publications.
  (tags: economics quantitative finance statistics modelling research reference journal)
• SSRN-Why Risk and Return are Uncorrelated: A Relative Status Approach by Eric Falkenstein
  In an environment where people care about relative wealth, risk is a deviation from what everyone else is doing, and therefore becomes like (avoidable) diversifiable risk in the CAPM.
  (tags: investment finance risk management portfolio asset allocation theory)
• Mahalanobis - Is Risk Related to Return? Why Not?
  A discussion of the Falkenstein “Why Risk is Uncorrelated with Return” paper on the lack of correlation of risk with observed investment returns.
  (tags: economics investing finance trading)
• MPAA: Frustrated Consumers Will Pirate - Yahoo! News
  Brad Hunt from MPAA on DRM incompatibilities - “I understand that if we frustrate the consumer, they will simply pirate the content”
  (tags: drm media movies music publishing distribution)
• Evolution - Dove Campaign for Real Beauty (Flash)
  Short movie demonstrating a woman’s makeup, hair, and photoshopping in constructing billboard advertising beauty images.
  (tags: media culture society women health beauty photoshop marketing)

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