Which of the Following Statements Is FALSE

question 64

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is FALSE?

• A) If indeed alphas are positive, it is possible that the positive alpha trading strategies contain risk that investors are unwilling to bear but the CAPM does not capture.
• B) If indeed alphas are positive, it is possible that the costs of implementing investment strategies are larger than the NPVs of undertaking them.
• C) If indeed alphas are positive, then investors have to be systematically ignoring negative-NPV investments opportunities.
• D) The only way a positive NPV investment opportunity can exist in a market is if some barrier to entry restricts competition.

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Joint Probability Distribution

Describes the probability of two or more events occurring at the same time and the relationship between them.

Probability Distribution

A mathematical description of outcomes in a statistical experiment, detailing how probabilities are distributed across the various possible outcomes.

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Joint Probability Distribution

The probability distribution that encompasses the probabilities of various outcomes for two or more random variables simultaneously.