Statistical Modeling of Stock Returns: Explanatory or Descriptive? A Historical Survey with Some Methodological Reflections

Phoebe Koundouri (), Nikolaos Kourogenis and Nikitas Pittis ()
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Nikitas Pittis: University of Piraeus, Greece

No 1410, DEOS Working Papers from Athens University of Economics and Business

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to survey the statistical models of stock returns that have been suggested in the finance literature since the middle of the twentieth century; second, to examine under the prism of the contemporary philosophy of science, which of the aforementioned models can be classified as explanatory and which as descriptive. Special emphasis is paid on tracing the interactions between the motivation for the birth of statistical models of stock returns in any given historical period and the concurrent changes of the theoretical paradigm in financial economics, as well as those of probability theory.

Keywords: Stock Returns; Statistical Model; Explanatory Model; Scientific Explanation; Market Efficiency; Brownian Motion. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 C58 G17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09-18
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