Flexible Models for Stock Returns Based on Student's T Distribution

Emmanuel Afuecheta; Stephen Chan; Saralees Nadarajah

doi:10.1111/manc.12234

Flexible Models for Stock Returns Based on Student's T Distribution

Emmanuel Afuecheta, Stephen Chan, Saralees Nadarajah

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Abstract

Models based on the Student's t distribution are proposed with its scale parameter randomized. Mathematical properties of the models such as their probability density functions, cumulative distribution functions, moments and characteristic functions are derived. Three of the models are fitted to daily log returns of six financial indices. They were shown to provide better fits than mixtures of Student's t distributions and the popular generalized hyperbolic distribution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	403-427
Number of pages	25
Journal	Manchester School
Volume	87
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/manc.12234
State	Published - Jun 2019
Externally published	Yes

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