Indexation and Causation of Financial Markets

This book presents a new statistical method of constructing a price index of a financial asset where the price distributions are skewed and heavy-tailed and investigates the effectiveness of the method. In order to fully reflect the movements of prices or returns on a financial asset, the index shou...

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Main Authors: Tanokura, Yoko. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Kitagawa, Genshiro. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:JSS Research Series in Statistics,
Subjects:
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55276-5
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction (1.1 Indexation of Financial Markets
  • 1.2 Causation of Financial Markets
  • 1.3 Nonstationarity of Financial Time Series
  • 1.4 State-Space Modeling
  • 1.5 Organization of the Book and Related Web Information
  • References)
  • 2 Method for Constructing a Distribution-Free Index (2.1 Nonstationary Time Series Modeling
  • 2.2 Transformation of Non-Gaussian Distributed Prices of a Financial Market
  • 2.3 Construction of a Distribution-Free Index
  • References)
  • 3 Power Contribution Analysis of a Multivariate Feedback System (3.1 Akaike’s Power Contribution and its Generalization
  • 3.2 Algorithm for Decomposing a Variance Covariance Matrix
  • 3.3 Example of Power Contribution Analysis
  • References)
  • 4 Application to Financial and Economic Time Series Data (4.1 Detecting Crisis Spillovers in Terms of Sovereign CDS Distribution-Free Indices
  • 4.2 Measuring the Impact of the US Subprime Crisis on Japanese Financial Markets
  • 4.3 Other Applications: Usability of the Distribution-Free Index)
  • References.