Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/83368 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IES Working Paper No. 4/2010
Publisher: 
Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES), Prague
Abstract: 
In the paper we research statistical properties of the Central European stock markets. We focus mainly on the tail behavior of the Czech, Polish, and Hungarian stock markets and compare them to the benchmark U.S. and German stock markets. We fit the data of the 4-year period from March 2005 to March 2009 with the stable probability distribution model and discuss its tail behavior. As the estimation of the tail exponent is very sensitive to the size of the data set, the estimates can be misleading for short daily samples. Thus, we employ high-frequency 1-minute data, which proves to be a good choice as it reveals interesting findings about the distributional properties. Furthermore, we study the difference in stock market behavior before and during the financial crisis.
Subjects: 
financial crisis
tail behavior
stock markets
stable probability distribution
JEL: 
G14
C13
C16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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