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Financial models with long-tailed distributions and volatility clustering

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Financial models with long-tailed distributions and volatility clustering have been introduced to overcome problems with the realism of classical financial models. These classical models of financial time series typically assume homoskedasticity and normality and as such cannot explain stylized phenomena such as skewness, heavy tails, and volatility clustering of the empirical asset returns in finance. In 1963, Benoit Mandelbrot first used the stable (or -stable) distribution to model the empirical distributions which have the skewness and heavy-tail property. Since -stable distributions have infinite -th moments for all , the tempered stable processes have been proposed for overcoming this limitation of the stable distribution.

On the other hand, GARCH models have been developed to explain the volatility clustering. In the GARCH model, the innovation (or residual) distributions are assumed to be a standard normal distribution, despite the fact that this assumption is often rejected empirically. For this reason, GARCH models with non-normal innovation distribution have been developed.

Many financial models with stable and tempered stable distributions together with volatility clustering have been developed and applied to risk management, option pricing, and portfolio selection.

Infinitely divisible distributions

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A random variable is called infinitely divisible if, for each , there are independent and identically-distributed random variables

such that

where denotes equality in distribution.

A Borel measure on is called a Lévy measure if and

If is infinitely divisible, then the characteristic function is given by

where , and is a Lévy measure. Here the triple is called a Lévy triplet of . This triplet is unique. Conversely, for any choice satisfying the conditions above, there exists an infinitely divisible random variable whose characteristic function is given as .

α-Stable distributions

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A real-valued random variable is said to have an -stable distribution if for any , there are a positive number and a real number such that

where are independent and have the same distribution as that of . All stable random variables are infinitely divisible. It is known that for some . A stable random variable with index is called an -stable random variable.

Let be an -stable random variable. Then the characteristic function of is given by

for some , and .

Tempered stable distributions

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An infinitely divisible distribution is called a classical tempered stable (CTS) distribution with parameter , if its Lévy triplet is given by , and

where and .

This distribution was first introduced by under the name of Truncated Lévy Flights[1] and 'exponentially truncated stable distribution' [2]. It was subsequently called the tempered stable or the KoBoL distribution.[3] In particular, if , then this distribution is called the CGMY distribution.[4]

The characteristic function for a tempered stable distribution is given by

for some . Moreover, can be extended to the region .

Rosiński generalized the CTS distribution under the name of the tempered stable distribution. The KR distribution, which is a subclass of the Rosiński's generalized tempered stable distributions, is used in finance.[5]

An infinitely divisible distribution is called a modified tempered stable (MTS) distribution with parameter , if its Lévy triplet is given by , and

where and

Here is the modified Bessel function of the second kind. The MTS distribution is not included in the class of Rosiński's generalized tempered stable distributions.[6]

Volatility clustering with stable and tempered stable innovation

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In order to describe the volatility clustering effect of the return process of an asset, the GARCH model can be used. In the GARCH model, innovation () is assumed that , where and where the series are modeled by

and where and .

However, the assumption of is often rejected empirically. For that reason, new GARCH models with stable or tempered stable distributed innovation have been developed. GARCH models with -stable innovations have been introduced.[7][8][9] Subsequently, GARCH Models with tempered stable innovations have been developed.[6][10]

Objections against the use of stable distributions in Financial models are given in [11][12]

Notes

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  1. ^ Koponen, I. (1995) "Analytic approach to the problem of convergence of truncated Lévy flights towards the Gaussian stochastic process", Physical Review E, 52, 1197–1199.
  2. ^ Cont, R., Potters, M., & Bouchaud, J. P. (1997) "Scaling in stock market data: stable laws and beyond", in: B. Dubrulle, F. Graner, D. Sornette (eds.): Scale Invariance and Beyond, 75-85, Springer.
  3. ^ S. I. Boyarchenko, S. Z. Levendorskiǐ (2000) "Option pricing for truncated Lévy processes", International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 3 (3), 549–552
  4. ^ P. Carr, H. Geman, D. Madan, M. Yor (2002) "The Fine Structure of Asset Returns: An Empirical Investigation", Journal of Business, 75 (2), 305–332.
  5. ^ Kim, Y.S.; Rachev, Svetlozar T.;, Bianchi, M.L.; Fabozzi, F.J. (2007) "A New Tempered Stable Distribution and Its Application to Finance". In: Georg Bol, Svetlozar T. Rachev, and Reinold Wuerth (Eds.), Risk Assessment: Decisions in Banking and Finance, Physika Verlag, Springer
  6. ^ a b Kim, Y.S., Chung, D. M., Rachev, Svetlozar T.; M. L. Bianchi, The modified tempered stable distribution, GARCH models and option pricing, Probability and Mathematical Statistics, to appear
  7. ^ C. Menn, Svetlozar T. Rachev (2005) "A GARCH Option Pricing Model with -stable Innovations", European Journal of Operational Research, 163, 201–209
  8. ^ C. Menn, Svetlozar T. Rachev (2005) "Smoothly Truncated Stable Distributions, GARCH-Models, and Option Pricing", Technical report. Statistics and Mathematical Finance School of Economics and Business Engineering, University of Karlsruh
  9. ^ Svetlozar T. Rachev, C. Menn, Frank J. Fabozzi (2005) Fat-Tailed and Skewed Asset Return Distributions: Implications for Risk Management, Portfolio selection, and Option Pricing, Wiley
  10. ^ Kim, Y.S.; Rachev, Svetlozar T.; Michele L. Bianchi, Fabozzi, F.J. (2008) "Financial market models with Lévy processes and time-varying volatility", Journal of Banking & Finance, 32 (7), 1363–1378 doi:10.1016/j.jbankfin.2007.11.004
  11. ^ Lev B. Klebanov, Irina Volchenkova (2015) "Heavy Tailed Distributions in Finance: Reality or Mith? Amateurs Viewpoint", arXiv:1507.07735v1, 1-17.
  12. ^ Lev B Klebanov (2016) "No Stable Distributions in Finance, please!", arXiv:1601.00566v2, 1-9.

References

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  • B. B. Mandelbrot (1963) "New Methods in Statistical Economics", Journal of Political Economy, 71, 421-440
  • Svetlozar T. Rachev, Stefan Mittnik (2000) Stable Paretian Models in Finance, Wiley
  • G. Samorodnitsky and M. S. Taqqu, Stable Non-Gaussian Random Processes, Chapman & Hall/CRC.
  • S. I. Boyarchenko, S. Z. Levendorskiǐ (2000) "Option pricing for truncated Lévy processes", International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 3 (3), 549–552.
  • J. Rosiński (2007) "Tempering Stable Processes", Stochastic Processes and their Applications, 117 (6), 677–707.