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Larks comments on Running the numbers: Cryo vs Discount rate - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: RomeoStevens 04 June 2014 07:54AM

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Comment author: Larks 26 June 2014 03:06:06AM 0 points [-]

Do you have a source for long-run stock market returns being normally distributed? At least in the short term, they have positive excess kurtosis and negative skew.

Comment author: RomeoStevens 26 June 2014 07:58:39PM 0 points [-]

I believe it's an assumption of a lot of models. I'll ask.