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Coping with the replicability crisis

Coping with the replicability crisis
March 16, 2017
Coping with the replicability crisis

This matters for investors. Researchers claim to have uncovered over 200 ways of beating the market, based upon companies' valuations, accounts or recent returns. However, Duke University's Campbell Harvey says most of these findings are "likely false".

Which poses the question: how can we protect ourselves from being misled by spurious research? I'd do so by asking two questions.

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