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Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought

by Andrew W. Lo  · 3 Apr 2017  · 733pp  · 179,391 words

The Birth of Quants 235 The Revenge of the Nerds 236 Quant Goes Mainstream 240 The Evolution of the Random Walk 244 Cell Phones and Kerala Fishermen 246 Chapter 8. Adaptive Markets in Action 249 The Traditional Investment Paradigm 249 The Great Modulation 254 A New World Order 256 Risk/Reward and

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“no high-frequency trading” zones. The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis predicts that high-frequency trading is on the cusp of an evolutionary change. CELL PHONES AND KERALA FISHERMEN The challenges of high-frequency traders are symptoms of the fact that technology has always played a critical role in the evolution of markets. A

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beautiful low-tech illustration of this dynamic can be found among the fishermen of Kerala, a region that lies on the southwestern coast of India where fishing is a major industry. Small fishing boats go out to sea for

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of the Hedge Fund The Birth of Quants The Revenge of the Nerds Quant Goes Mainstream The Evolution of the Random Walk Cell Phones and Kerala Fishermen Chapter 8. Adaptive Markets in Action The Traditional Investment Paradigm The Great Modulation A New World Order Risk/Reward and Punishment The Democratization of Investing

Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data

by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge  · 27 Feb 2018  · 267pp  · 72,552 words

be sold and used relatively soon after being brought to shore, numerous markets have sprung up in villages along the coastline. For hundreds of years, Kerala fishermen were confronted with two basic choices when it came to selling their fish. On a particularly successful day, when a fisherman pulled in a great

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markets got distributed more widely, market volatility plummeted. Thanks to a better flow of information, the market became vastly more efficient. The story of the Kerala fishermen adopting mobile phones has been described as a case of empowerment through digital technologies, and as a compelling demonstration of the importance of information to

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enabling new information streams depends on how well the specific qualities of that technology are aligned with the informational structure of the market. For the Kerala fishermen, mobile phones were such an empowering communication tool because they enabled one-on-one conversations with their potential buyers. This led to more and better

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significance of circumstances of which we are mostly ignorant.” There is a critical link between market efficiency and information flows, and the experience of the Kerala fishermen is a powerful illustration. Information can make or break a market—not only does information have to travel throughout the market, but it must travel

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extra penny expended in the pursuit of necessary information makes the market a more expensive mechanism for human coordination. Little would have changed for the fishermen in Kerala, for example, if placing a call from their mobile phones had cost more than they earned for a day’s catch or if technical

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Lynch, 155 metadata, 66 Micro Ventures, 152–153 Microsoft, 165, 166, 169 Microsoft Imagine Cup, 75 Minyons club, 17–20 mobile phones iPhone, 136, 164 Kerala fishermen and, 36–37 payment business and, 147 Model T Ford, 29, 98, 162 money, 4, 45–57, 63, 64, 143–144, 212 advantages of using

The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid

by C. K. Prahalad  · 15 Jan 2005  · 423pp  · 149,033 words

lives of their grandchildren in the United States.3 Chat rooms are full of activity that none of us could have imagined. Most interestingly, in Kerala, India, fishermen in traditional fishing boats, after a day of productive work, sell their catch to the highest bidders, using their cell phones to contact multiple

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

by Matt Ridley  · 17 May 2010  · 462pp  · 150,129 words

levels in the late 2000s. The role of the mobile phone in enriching the poor was especially well illustrated by a study of the sardine fishermen of Kerala in southern India (though similar stories can now be told about Africa). As documented by the economist Robert Jensen, on 14 January 1997, a

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costs. Later that year, using mobile phones on the newly installed cellular network (whose signals could be picked up twelve miles out to sea), the Kerala fishermen started doing just that: they called ahead to find out where best to land their catch. The result was that fishermen’s profits increased by

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poor of Asia a generation ago’. Rodrik, D. (ed.). 2003. In Search of Prosperity. Princeton University Press. p. 327 ‘a study of the sardine fishermen of Kerala in southern India’. Jensen, Robert T. 2007. The digital provide: information (technology), market performance and welfare in the South Indian fisheries sector. Quarterly Journal of

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

by Martin Ford  · 4 May 2015  · 484pp  · 104,873 words

living standards, but this has been documented primarily in developing countries that lack other communications infrastructure. By far the most celebrated success story involves sardine fishermen in Kerala, a region along the southwest coast of India. In a 2007 research paper, economist Robert Jensen described how mobile phones allowed the fishermen to

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exactly where the buyers were, and this has resulted in a better functioning market with more stable prices and far less waste. The sardine fishermen of Kerala have become a kind of standard-bearer for techno-optimism as it relates to developing countries, and their story has been told in numerous books

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Indian Fisheries Sector,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 122, no. 3 (2007): 879–924. 14. A few places in which the story of the sardine fishermen of Kerala has been told are The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley, A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor, The Mobile Wave by

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson  · 15 May 2023  · 619pp  · 177,548 words

the fishing industry in the southern Indian state of Kerala, which was revolutionized by the use of mobile phones. In some local beach markets in Kerala, fishermen would come in with a good catch of fish but would encounter insufficient demand, driving the price to zero and leaving a lot of the

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few fish for sale and many buyers, leading to high prices, unmet demand, and widespread inefficiencies. Beginning in 1997, mobile phone service was introduced throughout Kerala. Fishermen and wholesalers started using mobile phones to acquire information about the distribution of supply and demand across beach markets. Subsequently, price dispersion and fish wastage

Deep Sea and Foreign Going

by Rose George  · 4 Sep 2013  · 402pp  · 98,760 words

the pirate task. Yemen, the United States, Germany and Italy have prosecuted pirates. India, meanwhile, wants to prosecute Italian marines who shot two Indian fishermen off Kerala, mistaking them for pirates. As for other shooting of innocent, AK47-carrying fishermen at sea by marines or ex-marines, certainly it happens, and certainly

Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo  · 12 Nov 2019  · 470pp  · 148,730 words

macroeconomists call misallocation. A vivid instance of misallocation comes from the impact of the introduction of cell phones on fishing in the state of Kerala in India. Fishermen in Kerala would go out to fish early in the morning and return to shore midmorning to sell their catch. Before the cell phone

The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World

by Steven Radelet  · 10 Nov 2015  · 437pp  · 115,594 words

Robert Jensen of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) found that with the introduction of mobile phones along the coast of Kerala in southern India, fishermen began calling several markets while still at sea to help determine where to sell their catch. The impact was substantial: a reduction in wasted