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ame level of risk or if the risk is lowered while keeping the same level of return. Unfortunately the SR also suffers some caveats. Hendriksson and Merton (1981) and Dybvig and Ingersoll (1982) for example show that non-linear pay offs limit the applicability of the SR as a performance measure. Goetzm

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oretical economist who is able to model bubbles with a degree of precision. The use of statistical mechanics in economics is even more frustrating. Merton, Black and Scholes cherry-picked the diffusion equation from thermodynamics while completely ignoring its statistical mechanical roots and derivati

onsidered it and rejected it on other grounds. J. W. Gibbs served as Irving Fisher's thesis adviser a

entury Bachelier's work was largely forgotten. The use of random walks in finance was rekindled and ultimately led to the option pricing formulae of Merton, Black and Scholes. Unfortunately the random walk process has been removed from it's many body background, and individual prices are treated as mov