Stable processes: theory and applications in finance

This thesis is a study on stable distributions and some of their applications in understanding financial markets. Three broad problems are explored: First, we study a parameter and density estimation problem for stable distributions using commodity market data. We investigate and compare the accurac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kateregga, Michael
Other Authors: Mataramvura, Sure
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27069