Dukich, John M.; Hawkins, Douglas M. - In: Applied financial economics 20 (2010) 4/6, pp. 417-424
It is well known that the log price relative of floating exchange rates, as well as a variety of other commodities and securities, does not follow a normal distribution but instead tends to be characterized by a heavy-tailed stable Paretian distribution. Specifically, we illustrate this property...