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Spanning with Index Options

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Jin-Chuan Duan,
Arthur F. Moreau and
C. W. Sealey
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Abstract

Current literature stresses that efficient funds do not exist when asset returns are continuously distributed. This paper shows that the existence of efficient funds can be restored if security returns are generated by a linear factor model.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , June 1992, pp. 303 - 309
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1992

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