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Testing for Structural Breaks at Unknown Time: A Steeplechase
El-Shagi, Makram; Giesen, Sebastian - 2010
. However, each test is significantly affected by leptokurtosis. Contrarily to other tests, where skewness is far more … problematic than kurtosis, it has no additional effect for any of the endogenous break tests we analyze. Concerning overall …
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N ECONOMETRIC INVESTIGATION OF THE DAY-OF-THE-WEEK EFFECT AND RETURNS VOLATILITY IN FIFTEEN ASIA PACIFIC FINANCIAL MARKETS (1998-2003)
CHUKWUOGOR-NDU, Chiaku; FERIDUN, Mete - In: Applied Econometrics and International Development 6 (2006) 1
Even though the presence of the-day-of-the-week effect has been documented in finance literature, its presence in the aftermath of a financial crisis has not been explored. This paper investigates the presence of day-of-the-week effect and returns volatility in fifteen Asia Pacific Financial...
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Non-Extensitivity versus informative moments for financial models: a unifying framework and empirical results
Herrmann, Klaus - 2009
generalize the notion of GARCH processes in an information-theoretic sense and are able to capture skewness and kurtosis better …
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Tukey-type distributions in the context of financial data
Fischer, Matthias J.; Horn, Armin; Klein, Ingo - 2003
take skewness into account by means of certain transformations, several generalizations and extensions (HQ …
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Volatility models with innovations from new maximum entropy densities at work
Fischer, Matthias J.; Gao, Yang; Herrmann, Klaus - 2010
Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) processes have become very popular as models for financial return data because they are able to capture volatility clustering as well as leptokurtic unconditional distributions which result from the assumption of conditionally...
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What do data on millions of US workers reveal about life-cycle earnings risk?
Guvenen, Fatih; Karahan, Fatih; Ozkan, Serdar; Song, Jae - 2015
incomplete markets. In particular, earnings shocks display strong negative skewness and extremely high kurtosis - as high as 30 … compared with 3 for a Gaussian distribution. The high kurtosis implies that, in a given year, most individuals experience very …
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Prospect Theory and Higher Moments
Ågren, Martin - 2006
The paper relates cumulative prospect theory to the moments of returns distributions, e.g. skewness and kurtosis … related to the skewness. However, the relation is negative when probability weighing is set aside. This shows that cumulative … prospect theory investors display a preference for skewness through the probability weighting function. Furthermore, the …
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Skewness and kurtosis properties of income distribution models
McDonald, James B.; Sorensen, Jeff; Turley, Patrick A. - 2011
This paper explores the ability of some popular income distributions to model observed skewness and kurtosis. We … present the generalized beta type 1 (GB1) and type 2 (GB2) distributions' skewness-kurtosis spaces and clarify and expand on … previously known results on other distributions' skewness-kurtosis spaces. Data from the Luxembourg Income Study are used to …
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Simulating the market coefficient of relative risk aversion
Azar, Samih Antoine; Karaguezian-Haddad, Vera - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 1-7
following parameters are varied: the riskless return, the market standard deviation, the market stock premium, and the skewness … and the kurtosis of the risky return. Both the high extremes and the low extremes are considered. With these figures, the …
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Modeling autoregressive conditional skewness and kurtosis with multi-quantile CAViaR
White, Halbert; Kim, Tae-Hwan; Manganelli, Simone - 2008
new methods to estimate measures of conditional skewness and kurtosis defined in terms of conditional quantiles, analogous … to the unconditional quantile-based measures of skewness and kurtosis studied by Kim and White (2004). We investigate the … performance of our methods by simulation, and we apply MQ-CAViaR to study conditional skewness and kurtosis of S&P 500 daily …
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