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A Note on Estimating the Parameters of the Diffusion-Jump Model of Stock Returns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Stan Beckers
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The search for a distribution which accurately describes the behavior of stock price returns has generated a considerable amount of controversy. While it is well known that the traditionally used assumption of lognormality deviates in systematic ways from the empirically observed—the latter has fatter tails and a larger concentration of mass near zero—none of the alternatives that have been proposed over the years (Stable Paretian—Mandelbrot [5], Poisson mixture of; lognormal distributions—Press [10], scaled T distribution—Praetz [9], lognormal with nonstationary variance—Rosenberg [11], subordinate stochastic process—Clark [2]) has gained general acceptance.

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Research Article
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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 1981 , pp. 127 - 140
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1981

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