Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
982906 Procedia Economics and Finance 2015 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

Aggregational Gaussianity (AG) has long been considered a stylized fact of empirical asset return distributions. This research links existing work on the stable-Paretian Hypothesis with the Aggregational Gaussianity hypothesis and notes that the two are incompatible. We use simulation to show that under certain conditions, AG can be falsely inferred to hold in a data set exhibiting the stable-Paretian distribution.

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