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Superstatistical fluctuations in time series of leverage returns

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  • Katz, Y.A.
  • Tian, L.

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We analyze to what extent the emergence of fat-tailed q-Gaussian distributions of daily leverage returns of North American industrial companies that survive default and de-listing between 2006 and 2012 can be described by superstatistics. To this end, we compare mean values of the Tsallis entropic parameter q obtained by two independent methods: (i) direct fitting of q-Gaussians to distributions of leverage returns; and (ii) derived from shape parameters of Gamma distributions fitted to histograms of inverted realized variances of these returns. For a vast majority of companies, we observe the striking consistency of average values of q obtained by both methods. This finding supports the applicability of superstatistical hypothesis, which assumes that q-Gaussians result from the superposition of locally normal distributions with Gamma-distributed precision (inverted variance).

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  • Katz, Y.A. & Tian, L., 2014. "Superstatistical fluctuations in time series of leverage returns," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 405(C), pages 326-331.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:405:y:2014:i:c:p:326-331
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.03.036
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