Tail Behavior of the Central European Stock Markets during the Financial Crisis

Jozef Baruník, Lukas Vacha and Miloslav Vošvrda

Czech Economic Review, 2010, vol. 4, issue 3, 281-294

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.

Keywords: Financial crisis; tail behavior; stock markets; stable probability distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 C16 G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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