We show that a recent appendix to the Gini-coefficient to make the latter more sensitive to asymmetric income distributions can be viewed as an abstract measure of skewness. We develop some of its properties and apply it to the US-income distribution in 1974 and 2010

We plot aggregated daily stock returns with absolute value less than x against x and show empirically that this produces a typical spoon-shaped pattern which indicates a special type of asymmetry which has not been discussed before. This pattern disappears when individual returns are averaged; it...

We propose a new method (implemented in an R-program) to simulate long-range daily stock-price data. The program reproduces various stylized facts much better than various parametric models from the extended GARCH-family. In particular, the empirically observed changes in unconditional variance...

Mit dem Gerhard-Fürst-Preis des Statistischen Bundesamtes werden Arbeiten in den Kategorien Dissertationen und Master- beziehungsweise Bachelorarbeiten ausgezeichnet, die theoretische Themen mit einem engen Bezug zum Aufgabenspektrum der amtlichen Statistik behandeln oder empirische...