Often, in finite samples, the true level of the confidence intervals for natural estimators of inequality indices belonging to the Gini family differs greatly from their nominal level, which is based on the asymptotic confidence limits. This paper shows how the Gram-Charlier series can be used...

In this paper we present some nonparametric bootstrap methods to construct distribution-free confidence intervals for inequality indices belonging to the Gini family. These methods have a coverage accuracy better than that obtained with the asymptotic distribution of their natural estimators,...

GARCH-type models have been analyzed assuming various nongaussian distributions of errors. In general, the asymmetric generalized Student-t random variable seems to be the distribution which better captures the nonnormality features of financial data. However, a drawback of this distribution is...

Many problems in Finance, such as risk management, optimal asset allocation, and derivative pricing, require an understanding of the volatility and correlations of assets returns. In these cases, it may be necessary to represent empirical data with a parametric distribution. In the literature,...