Economy – Quantitative Finance – Statistical Finance
Scientific paper
2009-01-05
Economy
Quantitative Finance
Statistical Finance
Presentation at 2007 IMA First Conference on Computational Finance
Scientific paper
Motivated by the need for parametric families of rich and yet tractable distributions in financial mathematics, both in pricing and risk management settings, but also considering wider statistical applications, we investigate a novel technique for introducing skewness or kurtosis into a symmetric or other distribution. We use a "transmutation" map, which is the functional composition of the cumulative distribution function of one distribution with the inverse cumulative distribution (quantile) function of another. In contrast to the Gram-Charlier approach, this is done without resorting to an asymptotic expansion, and so avoids the pathologies that are often associated with it. Examples of parametric distributions that we can generate in this way include the skew-uniform, skew-exponential, skew-normal, and skew-kurtotic-normal.
Buckley Ian R. C.
Shaw William T.
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