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- Quant Quiz: Plot of Logarithm and Exponential: The only unusual part here is that the log
function is downward sloping instead of upward sloping (as it would be for base b larger than 1).
- Quant Quiz: Long-Short III: If you are underweight a stock but not short and the market
moves against you, the size of your active bet increases.
- Quant Quiz: Correlation I: Deeper Challenge: They are almost perfectly
negatively correlated because the five-day return to Stock 1 is, essentially, the mean times five
plus X, where X is a random variable, and the five-day return to Stock 2 is, essentially, the mean times five
minus X, where X is the same random variable.
- Simple pmf with \beta_1=0, but it is non-symmetrical: X={-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3} with frequencies
{1,0,18,72,13,4,0}, taken from an example here.
Note that you only need to have \mu_3=0 (assuming some dispersion), to get \beta_1=0.
- Figure 2.15 Exercise: I calculated betas relative to the portfolio with return 0.15.
- Figure 2.17 Exercise: The value of lambda_R is 0.07 (or 7 if expressed in decimals).
- The BEAR challenge. You should get BEAR--->EAR because eventually the balance grows so large
that the extra $1000 arriving each year is nothing.
- The two P/E challenges are straightforward enough.
- The accidental-death insurance premium (per $200,000 of coverage) should not increase with inflation,
because both the premium and the nominal cover decrease in purchasing power with inflation at the same rate.
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Last Updated: December 7, 2021