Heavy-Tailed Distributions and Robustness in Economics and Finance

This book focuses on general frameworks for modeling heavy-tailed distributions in economics, finance, econometrics, statistics, risk management and insurance. A central theme is that of (non-)robustness, i.e., the fact that the presence of heavy tails can either reinforce or reverse the implication...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ibragimov, Marat, Ibragimov, Rustam (Author), Walden, Johan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
Series:Lecture Notes in Statistics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Implications of Heavy-tailed ness
  • Inference and Empirical Examples
  • Conclusion