This paper provides a mapping from portfolio risk diversification into the pairwise correlation between portfolios. In a finite market of uncorrelated assets, portfolio risk is reduced by increasing diversification. However, higher the diversification level, the greater is the overlap between...

Autoregressions of quarterly or annual aggregate time series provide evidence of trend-reverting output growth and of short-term dynamic adjustment that appears to be governed by complex eigenvalues. This finding is at odds with the predictions of reasonably parameterized, convex one-sector...