The English Premier League is often quoted as being the ‘best football league in the world’, a mix of British born and international stars showing off their skills almost every week. With around 25 % of Premier League players being from ethnic minority backgrounds, it is arguably one of the...

For the first time, an extreme value analysis is provided for financial data from Africa. The results of analysis show evidence of emerging economies in Africa. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

Papastathopoulos and Tawn [Papastathopoulos, I., Tawn, J.A., 2013. A generalized Student’s t-distribution. Statistics & Probability Letters 83, 70–77] proposed a generalization of Student’s t distribution to account for negative degrees of freedom. Here, an alternative distribution that...

Following up on the work of Nadarajah and Teimouri [Nadarajah, S., Teimouri, M., 2012. On the characteristic function for asymmetric exponential power distributions. Econometric Reviews 31, 475–481], we derive here, for the first time, explicit closed-form expressions for the characteristic...