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Replication has a specific job: reproduce the target exposure with tolerable error and cost.
Arratia and Gzyl propose an Entropic Factor Model that constrains both estimated factor exposures and portfolio weights. The intention is to prevent noisy observations from producing unstable allocations.
The idea deserves attention. So does the difference between the paper’s broad performance claims and the more conditional evidence in its tables.
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