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Distribution Moments and Equilibrium: A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

Fred D. Arditti  and
Haim Levy
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Using the mean-variance model, Sharpe [5] and Lintner [4] have derived an equilibrium model for price determination under uncertainty. Jean [2] has tried to generalize this model so that other moments of the distribution will be taken into account. The purpose of this note is to show that unlike the Sharpe-Lintner model, Jean's results make no economic sense.

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1972 , pp. 1429 - 1433
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1972

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