Comparison between Information Theoretic Measures to Assess Financial Markets

Luckshay Batra and Harish Chander Taneja
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Luckshay Batra: Department of Applied Mathematics, Delhi Technological University, Delhi 110042, India
Harish Chander Taneja: Department of Applied Mathematics, Delhi Technological University, Delhi 110042, India

FinTech, 2022, vol. 1, issue 2, 1-18

Abstract: Information theoretic measures were applied to the study of the randomness associations of different financial time series. We studied the level of similarities between information theoretic measures and the various tools of regression analysis, i.e., between Shannon entropy and the total sum of squares of the dependent variable, relative mutual information and coefficients of correlation, conditional entropy and residual sum of squares, etc. We observed that mutual information and its dynamical extensions provide an alternative approach with some advantages to study the association between several international stock indices. Furthermore, mutual information and conditional entropy are relatively efficient compared to the measures of statistical dependence.

Keywords: entropy; conditional entropy; mutual information; financial markets; time series (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C6 F3 G O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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