Alex Preda
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Preda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Preda |
| SIGNATURE | PREDA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lingnan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Purity and dangers
Market making is a crucial activity in financial markets, expected to reduce uncertainties related to price and liquidity information, and to enable strategic interactions among traders. Sociologists of finance have recently emphasized the role of automation and calculative devices such as algorithms in market making, highlighting the transition from informal human interactions on the trading floor to multilayered, formalized interactions involvi…
Noise
We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There's another side to finance, though - the millions of amateurs who log on to their computers every day to make their own trades. The shocking truth, however, is that less than 2% of these amateur traders make a consistent profit. Why, then, do they do it? In Noise, Alex Preda explores the world of the people wh…
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. This publication brings together twenty-nine articles, written by scholars of international repute from Europe, North America, and Asia, to provide comprehensive coverage on a variety of topics related to the role of fina…
Title Pages
In the Enchanted Grove
The paper examines conversations in the 18th-century London and Paris financial marketplaces. The aim is to highlight the place of conversations as the key form of interaction in the marketplace, and to evaluate financial conversations against the broader cultural background of literary and scientific dialogues of the time. The relevance of this enterprise is that it leads to a better understanding of how the verbal interactions of the marketplac…
In the Enchanted Grove
The paper examines conversations in the 18th-century London and Paris financial marketplaces. The aim is to highlight the place of conversations as the key form of interaction in the marketplace, and to evaluate financial conversations against the broader cultural background of literary and scientific dialogues of the time. The relevance of this enterprise is that it leads to a better understanding of how the verbal interactions of the marketplac…
In the Enchanted Grove
The paper examines conversations in the 18th-century London and Paris financial marketplaces. The aim is to highlight the place of conversations as the key form of interaction in the marketplace, and to evaluate financial conversations against the broader cultural background of literary and scientific dialogues of the time. The relevance of this enterprise is that it leads to a better understanding of how the verbal interactions of the marketplac…
Title Pages
The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in the workings of financial institutions and financial markets beyond the discipline of economics, which has been accelerated by the financial crisis of the early twenty-first century. This publication brings together twenty-nine articles, written by scholars of international repute from Europe, North America, and Asia, to provide comprehensive coverage on a variety of topics related to the role of fina…
Noise
We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There's another side to finance, though - the millions of amateurs who log on to their computers every day to make their own trades. The shocking truth, however, is that less than 2% of these amateur traders make a consistent profit. Why, then, do they do it? In Noise, Alex Preda explores the world of the people wh…
Purity and dangers
Market making is a crucial activity in financial markets, expected to reduce uncertainties related to price and liquidity information, and to enable strategic interactions among traders. Sociologists of finance have recently emphasized the role of automation and calculative devices such as algorithms in market making, highlighting the transition from informal human interactions on the trading floor to multilayered, formalized interactions involvi…
Economics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Financial market (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Art History and Market Analysis (1 work) · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (1 work) · Brokers (1 work)