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The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip?

Musings on Markets

The second is art , ranging from paintings from the masters to digital art (non-fungible tokens or NFTs), that presumably offers owners not just financial returns but emotional dividends. In theory, these appraisers are supposed to mark-to-market, but in practice, the pricing that they attach to private assets lag market changes.

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A Return to Teaching: The Spring 2023 Edition

Musings on Markets

In this class, I start by looking at data collection and data descriptives , before moving on to distributions and data relationships (correlations, covariances and regressions) and closing with probabilities and probabilistic tools.