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title: Asset Pricing Primer for Big Data
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4707383/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4707383
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4707383
featured: 2024-01-30
citations: unknown
topic: Asset Pricing & Factors
---


# Asset Pricing Primer for Big Data

The lecture notes discuss Big Data Asset Pricing, covering topics like state prices, beta pricing, market efficiency, and factor models.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4707383
- Identifier: SSRN 4707383
- Released: 2022-04-29
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 35 (2024-01-30): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-01-30/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Asset Pricing & Factors

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