Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202315 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
JRC Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 2019/11
Publisher: 
Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
Abstract: 
The aim of this paper is to study the distribution of portfolio returns across portfolios and for given asset returns. We focus on the most common type of investment considering portfolios whose weights are non-negative and sum up to 1. We provide algorithms and formulas from computational geometry and the literature on splines to compute the exact values of the probability density function, and of the cumulative distribution function at any point. We also provide closed-form solutions for the computation of its first four moments, and an algorithm to compute the higher moments. All algorithms and formulas allow for equal asset returns.
Subjects: 
Cross-section of portfolios
Finance
Geometry
B-spline
JEL: 
C6
G11
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-76-03963-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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