his article tests the hypothesis that price changes for a selected number of T commodity futures contracts are independent of previous price changes. The statistical procedure used to perform this test is called rescaled range analysis and is capable of identifying persistent or irregular cyclic dep
Memory in returns and volatilities of futures' contracts
β Scribed by Nuno Crato; Bonnie K. Ray
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 165 KB
- Volume
- 20
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0270-7314
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