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On the scaling of the distribution of daily price fluctuations in the Mexican financial market index

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  • Alfonso, Léster
  • Mansilla, Ricardo
  • Terrero-Escalante, César A.

Abstract

In this paper, a statistical analysis of log-return fluctuations of the IPC, the Mexican Stock Market Index is presented. A sample of daily data covering the period from 04/09/2000–04/09/2010 was analyzed, and fitted to different distributions. Tests of the goodness of fit were performed in order to quantitatively asses the quality of the estimation. Special attention was paid to the impact of the size of the sample on the estimated decay of the distributions tail. In this study a forceful rejection of normality was obtained. On the other hand, the null hypothesis that the log-fluctuations are fitted to a α-stable Lévy distribution cannot be rejected at the 5% significance level.

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  • Alfonso, Léster & Mansilla, Ricardo & Terrero-Escalante, César A., 2012. "On the scaling of the distribution of daily price fluctuations in the Mexican financial market index," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 391(10), pages 2990-2996.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:391:y:2012:i:10:p:2990-2996
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2012.01.023
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    1. Suárez-García, Pablo & Gómez-Ullate, David, 2013. "Scaling, stability and distribution of the high-frequency returns of the Ibex35 index," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 392(6), pages 1409-1417.
    2. Federica De Domenico & Giacomo Livan & Guido Montagna & Oreste Nicrosini, 2023. "Modeling and Simulation of Financial Returns under Non-Gaussian Distributions," Papers 2302.02769, arXiv.org.
    3. Peng Liu & Yanyan Zheng, 2022. "Precision measurement of the return distribution property of the Chinese stock market index," Papers 2209.08521, arXiv.org, revised Nov 2023.
    4. Marcin Wk{a}torek & Jaros{l}aw Kwapie'n & Stanis{l}aw Dro.zd.z, 2021. "Financial Return Distributions: Past, Present, and COVID-19," Papers 2107.06659, arXiv.org.
    5. De Domenico, Federica & Livan, Giacomo & Montagna, Guido & Nicrosini, Oreste, 2023. "Modeling and simulation of financial returns under non-Gaussian distributions," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 622(C).

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