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1、OnHurstexponentestimationunderheavy-taileddistributionsJozefBarunikLadislavKristoufekyAbstractInthispaper,weshowhowthesamplingpropertiesofHurstexponentmethodsofestimationchangewiththepresenceofheavytails.WerunextensiveMonteCarlosimulationstondouthowrescaledrangeanal-ysis(R=S
2、),multifractaldetrended
uctuationanalysis(MF DFA),detrendingmovingaverage(DMA)andgeneralizedHurstexponentap-proach(GHE)estimateHurstexponentonindependentserieswithdif-ferentheavytails.Forthispurpose,wegenerateindependentrandomseriesfromstabledistributionwithstabilityexponentch
3、angingfrom1.1(heaviesttails)to2(Gaussiannormaldistribution)andweestimateHurstexponentusingthedierentmethods.R=SandGHEprovetoberobusttoheavytailsintheunderlyingprocess.GHEprovidesthelow-estvarianceandbiasincomparisontotheothermethodsregardlessthepresenceofheavytailsindataandsa
4、mplesize.Utilizingthisresult,weapplyanovelapproachofintradaytime-dependentHurstexponentandweestimateHurstexponentonhighfrequencydataforeachtradingdayseparately.WeobtainHurstexponentsforS&P500indexfortheperiodbeginningwithyear1983andendingbyNovember2009andwediscusssurprisingres
5、ultwhichuncovershowthemarket'sbehaviorchangedoverthislongperiod.Keywords:Hurstexponent,heavytails,highfrequencydataanalysisarXiv:1201.4786v1[q-fin.ST]23Jan2012InstituteofInformationTheoryandAutomation,AcademyofSciencesoftheCzechRe-public,InstituteofEconomicStudies,CharlesUniv
6、ersity,Prague,Email:barunik@utia.cas.cz(CorrespondingAuthor)yInstituteofInformationTheoryandAutomation,AcademyofSciencesoftheCzechRe-public,InstituteofEconomicStudies,CharlesUniversity,Prague11IntroductionThepresenceoflong-rangedependenceandtheestimationofitscharacteristicHurs
7、texponentinnancialtimeserieshavebeenwidelydiscussedinseveralrecentresearchpapers,e.g.(Alvarez-Ramirezetal.,2008;Carboneetal.,2004;Czarneckietal.,2008;DiMatteo,2007;DiMatteoetal.,2005;GrechandMazur,2004;Matosetal.,2008;Peters,1994;Vandewalleetal.,1997).Eventhoughtherearesevera
8、lstudiesofthenitesamplepropertiesofdierentmeth-ods(Couillar