Adding risks: Samuelson's fallacy of large numbers revisited

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 323-339

  Ross, Stephen A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0038850166     PISSN: 00221090     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2676262     Document Type: Article

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