Overview
Christopher B. Barry was a finance scholar (Texas Christian University), known for early work on estimation risk in portfolio selection and on emerging-markets and venture-capital finance.
Key Contributions / Features
- Estimation risk in portfolio choice (Barry 1974): analyzed how uncertainty about means, variances, and covariances alters the investor's predictive return distribution and portfolio choice — the efficient set is invariant, but the selected portfolio grows more conservative as uncertainty rises.
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