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A NOTE ON THE PROGRESSIVE CONSUMPTION TAX

Published: 09/01/1953   |   DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1953.tb01173.x

Pao Lun Cheng

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TEST OF PORTFOLIO BUILDING RULES: COMMENT

Published: 09/01/1971   |   DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1971.tb00935.x

Pao L. Cheng, M. King Deets

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A CONTRIBUTION TO THE THEORY OF CAPITAL BUDGETING—THE MULTI‐INVESTMENT CASE*

Published: 12/01/1963   |   DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1963.tb01636.x

Pao L. Cheng, John P. Shelton

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Published: 12/01/1964   |   DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1964.tb02894.x

Pao L. Cheng, John P. Shelton

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Published: 03/01/1976   |   DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1976.tb03208.x

Pao L. Cheng, M. King Deets

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Published: 06/01/1973   |   DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1973.tb01394.x

Pao L. Cheng, M. King Deets

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Continuous Maturity Diversification of Default‐Free Bond Portfolios and a Generalization of Efficient Diversification

Published: 09/01/1984   |   DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1984.tb03895.x

W. JOHN HEANEY, PAO L. CHENG

This paper presents a method for solving the mean‐variance portfolio selection problem that is applicable to the case where the number of securities is nondenumerably infinite. Necessary conditions for the existence of an optimal portfolio density are obtained and an expression for the efficient frontier is derived. The conditions for the existence of an optimal portfolio of continuously maturing bonds when their covariance matrix is singular are used to derive an arbitrage‐free bond pricing equation. A method for estimating the covariance matrix and the associated efficient frontier is presented.

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PORTFOLIO RETURNS AND THE RANDOM WALK THEORY

Published: 03/01/1971   |   DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1971.tb00585.x

Pao L. Cheng, M. King Deets

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