A Note on Estimating the Parameters of the Diffusion-Jump Model of Stock Returns

Stan Beckers

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1981, vol. 16, issue 1, 127-140

Abstract: The search for a distribution which accurately describes the behavior of stock price returns has generated a considerable amount of controversy. While it is well known that the traditionally used assumption of lognormality deviates in systematic ways from the empirically observed—the latter has fatter tails and a larger concentration of mass near zero—none of the alternatives that have been proposed over the years (Stable Paretian—Mandelbrot [5], Poisson mixture of; lognormal distributions—Press [10], scaled T distribution—Praetz [9], lognormal with nonstationary variance—Rosenberg [11], subordinate stochastic process—Clark [2]) has gained general acceptance.

Date: 1981
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