Heavy-tail Sensitivity of Stable Portfolios

This thesis documents a heavy-tailed analysis of stable portfolios. Stock market crashes occur more often than is predicted by a normal distribution,which provides empirical evidence that asset returns are heavy-tailed. The motivation of this thesis is to study the effects of heavy-tailed distributi...

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Main Author: Agatonovic, Marko
Language:en
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5427