The Valuation of Risk Assets and the Selection of Risky Investments in Stock Portfolios and Capital Budgets

1965/02/01 by John Lintner · 6,962 citations
Business, Management and Accounting · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Actuarial science #Business #Capital Investment and Risk Analysis #Economics #Finance #Financial Markets and Investment Strategies #Financial Reporting and Valuation Research #Financial economics #Pre-money valuation #Stock (firearms) #Valuation (finance)

paper · doi:10.2307/1924119

published in The Review of Economics and Statistics 47(1), 13 (The MIT Press)

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Abstract

John Lintner, The Valuation of Risk Assets and the Selection of Risky Investments in Stock Portfolios and Capital Budgets, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Feb., 1965), pp. 13-37

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