We have found that Rational Expectations, Random Walk and Efficient Market theories are closely correlated. The Monetarist and Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) theories take into account both the money supply

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Financial Theories and Strategies

Learning Team A

Scott Schifilliti, Andrew Gorman, Megan Wilson,

Shivanand R. Koppalkar and Ha Nguyen

University of Phoenix

FIN 554: Finance for Managerial Decision-Making

Lan Guan

April 10, 2006

Financial Theories and Strategies

The theories Learning Team A has chosen are considered building blocks for other theories. We have found that Rational Expectations, Random Walk and Efficient Market theories are closely correlated. The Monetarist and Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) theories take into account both the money supply and inflation in theorizing demand, while CSR considers the social responsibilities of an organization as a whole.

Rational Expectations Theory

A rational expectation is an economic theory originally proposed by John F. Muth which speculates that economic situations not only depend on the economic factors, they mimic how people will react to certain situations and how they will perceive a particular outcome. The Rational Expectation theory was created due to flaws that Muth identified with other theories such as the Adaptive Expectations theory, which takes into account past values or trends in forecasting the future value of economic variables. An example of