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Chapter 10, Problem 7CT
Summary Introduction
Market efficiency:
Market efficiency is the state of a market wherein all relevant information is easily available and accessible to all participants in the market at the same point of time. Moreover, prices of goods and services also respond immediately to the available information. A very good example of an
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The reason why market efficiency lead a manager to focus on
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