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Benoit B. Mandelbrot, When Can Price be Arbitraged Efficiently? A Limit to the Validity of the Random Walk and Martingale Models, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 53, No. 3 (Aug., 1971), pp. 225-236
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