Modeling Maximum Entropy Distributions for Financial Returns by Moment Combination and Selection.

In empirical finance, conditional distributions of financial returns are often established by specifying the standardized error distributions of GARCH-type models. In this article, we apply the maximum entropy (MaxEnt) approach and propose a moment combination and selection method to explore this di...

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Publicado en:Journal of Financial Econometrics Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 414 - 456
Autor principal: YI-TING CHEN
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Spring2015
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        Rate of return on stocks
        Mathematical models
        Maximum entropy method
        Statistical errors
        GARCH model
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          Rate of return on stocks
          Mathematical models
          Maximum entropy method
          Statistical errors
          GARCH model
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        GARCH-type models
        maximum entropy
        moment combination
        moment selection
        standardized error distribution
        GARCH-type models
        maximum entropy
        moment combination
        moment selection
        standardized error distribution
      ab: In empirical finance, conditional distributions of financial returns are often established by specifying the standardized error distributions of GARCH-type models. In this article, we apply the maximum entropy (MaxEnt) approach and propose a moment combination and selection method to explore this distribution-building problem. We demonstrate that this framework is useful for unifying and comparing existing distribution specifications, generating more suitable distribution specifications, and shedding light on the roles of different moments in the distribution-building process. We also show the applicability of our method to real data by means of an empirical study on stock index returns.
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