Statistical Tools for Finance and Insurance
Statistical Tools in Finance and Insurance presents ready-to-use solutions, theoretical developments and method construction for many practical problems in quantitative finance and insurance. Written by practitioners and leading academics in the field of
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el Cížek • Wolfgang Härdle • Rafał Weron
Statistical Tools for Finance and Insurance
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ˇ Pavel Cížek Tilburg University Dept. of Econometrics & OR P.O. Box 90153 5000 LE Tilburg, Netherlands e-mail: [email protected]
Rafał Weron Wrocław University of Technology Hugo Steinhaus Center Wyb. Wyspia´ nskiego 27 50-370 Wrocław, Poland e-mail: [email protected]
Wolfgang Härdle Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin CASE – Center for Applied Statistics and Economics Institut für Statistik und Ökonometrie Spandauer Straße 1 10178 Berlin, Germany e-mail: [email protected]
This book is also available as e-book on www.i-xplore.de. Use the licence code at the end of the book to download the e-book. Library of Congress Control Number: 2005920464
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 62P05, 91B26, 91B28
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Contents
Contributors
13
Preface
15
I
19
Finance
1 Stable Distributions
21
Szymon Borak, Wolfgang H¨ ardle, and Rafal Weron 1.1
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
21
1.2
Definitions and Basic Characteristic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
22
1.2.1
Characteristic Function Representation . . . . . . . . .
24
1.2.2
Stable Density and Distribution Functions . . . . . . . .
26
1.3
Simulation of α-stable Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
28
1.4
Estimation of Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
30
1.4.1
Tail Exponent Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
31
1.4.2
Quantile Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
33
1.4.3
Characteristic Function Approaches . . . . . . . . . . .
34
1.4.4
Maximum Likelihood Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
35
Financial Applications of Stable Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
36
1.5
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Contents
2 Extreme Value Analysis and Copulas
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Krzysztof Jajuga and Daniel
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