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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

So do not be discouraged to learn that we start with something called the stochastic discount factor , which Campbell describes as the central idea of modern asset-pricing theory. Many lay readers are familiar with John Burr Williams and the dividend discount model , or the discounted value of future cash flows.

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