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Preface to the Annual Review of Financial Economics *

Preface to the Annual Review of Financial Economics * It is surely a coming of age for financial economics that the field is now covered by Annual Reviews, a not-for-profit organization that has been providing the scientific community with authoritative critical reviews of the most important scholarly advances since 1932, starting with the Annual Review of Biochemistry. Annual Reviews now covers 40 disciplines ranging from analytical chemistry to sociology, and it has been our pleasure and privilege to serve as editors for this inaugural volume of the Annual Review of Financial Economics. One of the most exciting aspects of this discipline is the constant interplay between theory and practice that is unique among the social sciences. Despite its use of rather arcane mathematics, and unlike other mathematically sophisticated branches of economics, financial economics has found its way into the mainstream of financial practice. It was not always thus. The scientific breakthroughs in financial modeling both shaped and were shaped by the extraordinary flow of financial innovation that coincided with revolutionary changes in the structure of world financial markets and institutions during the past four decades. In this preface, we provide some personal reflections—meant neither to be authoritative nor exhaustive—on the origins of financial economics, where the field http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Financial Economics Annual Reviews

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Annual Reviews
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Copyright © 2009 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
ISSN
1941-1367
eISSN
1941-1375
DOI
10.1146/annurev-financial-071808-145225
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It is surely a coming of age for financial economics that the field is now covered by Annual Reviews, a not-for-profit organization that has been providing the scientific community with authoritative critical reviews of the most important scholarly advances since 1932, starting with the Annual Review of Biochemistry. Annual Reviews now covers 40 disciplines ranging from analytical chemistry to sociology, and it has been our pleasure and privilege to serve as editors for this inaugural volume of the Annual Review of Financial Economics. One of the most exciting aspects of this discipline is the constant interplay between theory and practice that is unique among the social sciences. Despite its use of rather arcane mathematics, and unlike other mathematically sophisticated branches of economics, financial economics has found its way into the mainstream of financial practice. It was not always thus. The scientific breakthroughs in financial modeling both shaped and were shaped by the extraordinary flow of financial innovation that coincided with revolutionary changes in the structure of world financial markets and institutions during the past four decades. In this preface, we provide some personal reflections—meant neither to be authoritative nor exhaustive—on the origins of financial economics, where the field

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Annual Review of Financial Economics – Annual Reviews

Published: Jan 1, 2009

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