Noah Smith has a very nice post this morning: Noah Smith: Risk premia or behavioral craziness?: John Cochrane is quite critical of Robert Shiller…. He… thinks that Shiller is trying to make finance less quantitative and more literary (I somehow doubt this, given that Shiller is first and foremost an econometrician, and not that literary … Continue reading Noise Trading, Bubbles, and Excess Stock Market Volatility: Noah Smith and Robert Shiller and Andrei Shleifer and Jeremy Greenwood vs. John Cochrane and Gene Fama and Company: Progressive vs. Degenerative Research Programs in Finance: The Honest Broker for the Week of January 11, 2014