Asymmetric heavy-tailed distributions : theory and applications to finance and risk management

This thesis focuses on construction, properties and estimation of asymmetric heavy-tailed distributions, as well as on their applications to financial modeling and risk measurement. First of all, we suggest a general procedure to construct a fully asymmetric distribution based on a symmetrically par...

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Main Author: Zhu, Dongming, 1963-
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2007
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=102854

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