Asymmetries and tails in stock index returns: Are their distributions really asymmetric?

Quantitative Finance

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-44

  Peiró, Amado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

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EID: 1542718492     PISSN: 14697688     EISSN: 14697696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1469-7688/4/1/003     Document Type: Article

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