Market Efficiency, the Pareto Wealth Distribution, and the Lévy Distribution of Stock Returns

The Economy as an Evolving Complex System, III: Current Perspectives and Future Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages

  Levy, Moshe ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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Capital; Inequality; Investment; Levy distribution; Pareto wealth distribution; Power law; Stock

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EID: 84920753259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195162592.003.0006     Document Type: Chapter

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