A critique of the stochastic discount factor methodology

Journal of Finance

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1221-1248

  Kan, Raymond ^a   Zhou, Guofu ^a  

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EID: 0039442984     PISSN: 00221082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0022-1082.00145     Document Type: Article

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