An analysis of the distribution of extre
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G. D. Gettinby; C. D. Sinclair; D. M. Power; R. A. Brown
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract This paper seeks to characterize the distribution of extreme returns for US, UK and Japanese equity indices over the years 1963โ2000. In particular, the suitability of the following distributions is investigated: Normal, Frechet, Gumbel, Weibull, Generalized Extreme Value (GEV), General