Rachev, S. T.; SenGupta, A. - In: Management Science 39 (1993) 8, pp. 1029-1038
B. Mandelbrot and E. Fama in the sixties, and W. Ziemba in the seventies, suggested stable laws for modeling stock returns and commodity prices. Geometric stable distributions, with Laplace distribution playing the role of a "normal" law, have been found to give better fit to such data. We study...