Melissa Vergara-Fernandez

Publications

These are the papers and book chapters that, until now, have made it to the public domain after having been reviewed by peers.

"Describing Model Relations: the Case of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) family in financial economics"
Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (2023).
(With C. Heilmann & M. Szymanowska).
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"Contextualist model evaluation: models in financial economics and index funds"
European Journal for Philosophy of Science (2023).
(With C. Heilmann & M. Szymanowska).
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"Financial Economics: What Kind of Science is it?"
in The Philosophy of Money and Finance, J. Sandberg and L. Warenski (Eds.), Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
(With C. Heilmann & M. Szymanowska).
"Finance and Financial Economics: a Philosophy of Science Perspective"
in J. Reiss & C. Heilmann (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Economics. Nov. 2021 Routledge.
(With B. de Bruin).
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"The Journal Impact Factor Might Be Useful But, for What, Precisely?"
OEconomia, 2021 11–3, 473–484.
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"Karl Mittermaier, Adam Smith, and Economic Methodology: A Comment on 'The Invisible Hand and Some Thoughts on the Non-Existent in What We Study'"
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch. 2019 (139) 1.
(With R. Schumacher).
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"Rejoinder to ‘Comparative Economics and the Mainstream’ by László Csaba”
Economics and Business Review. 2017 3(17):3, 138-142.
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“Epistemic Contributions of Models: Conditions for Propositional Learning”
Perspectives on Science. 2015 23:4, 405-423.
(With F. Claveau).
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Work in Progress