The Grossman-Stiglitz Paradox is a paradox introduced by Sanford J. Grossman and Joseph Stiglitz in a joint publication in American Economic Review in 1980[1] that argues perfectly informationally efficient markets are an impossibility since, if prices perfectly reflected available information, there is no profit to gathering information, in which case there would be little reason to trade and markets would eventually collapse.[2]
Rational efficient markets formulationedit
The rational efficient markets formulation recognizes that investors will not rationally incur the expenses of gathering information unless they expect to be rewarded by higher gross returns compared with the free alternative of accepting the market price. Furthermore, modern theorists recognize that when intrinsic value is difficult to determine, as is the case of common stock, and when trading costs exist, even further room exists for price to diverge from value.[3]
A corollary is that investors who purchase index funds or ETFs are benefitting at the expense of investors who pay for the services of financial advisors, either directly or indirectly through the purchase of actively managed funds.[4]
Referencesedit
^Grossman, Sanford J.; Stiglitz, Joseph E. (June 1980). "On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets" (PDF). American Economic Review. 70 (3): 393–408.
^Lo, Andrew (2007). "Efficient market hypothesis". In Blume, Steven; Durlauf, Lawrence (eds.). The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics(PDF) (2nd ed.). Palgrave McMillan.
^CFA Program Curriculum - 2017 - Level II. CFA Institute. 2017. pp. 6–7. ISBN978-1-942471-76-9.
^Levine, Matt (July 3, 2019). "Good Investors Make Investing Harder". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
External linksedit
Felix, Ben (2014-01-28). "The Grossman-Stiglitz Paradox". PWL Capital Blog.
April 11, 2024
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