On the (im-)possibility of representing probability distributions as a difference of i.i.d. noise terms
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- Christian Ewerhart & Marco Serena, 2023. "On the (Im-)Possibility of Representing Probability Distributions as a Difference of I.I.D. Noise Terms," Working Papers tax-mpg-rps-2023-04, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance.
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