An empirical evaluation of fat-tailed di
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Mike K.P. So; Cathy W.S. Chen; Jen-Yu Lee; Yi-Ping Chang
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Article
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2008
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Elsevier Science
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English
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There is substantial evidence that many financial time series exhibit leptokurtosis and volatility clustering. We compare the two most commonly used statistical distributions in empirical analysis to capture these features: the t distribution and the generalized error distribution (GED). A Bayesian