Testing asymmetry in financial time series

Quantitative Finance

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 687-696

  Lisi, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Financial returns; Skewness; Symmetry test

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749025797     PISSN: 14697688     EISSN: 14697696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697680701283739     Document Type: Article

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