Grothe, Oliver; Schmidt, Rafael - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 389 (2010) 7, pp. 1455-1463
Student’s t-distributions are widely used in financial studies as heavy-tailed alternatives to normal distributions. As … these distributions are not closed under convolution, there exist no Lévy processes with Student’s t-marginals at all points … in time. In this article we show that a Student’s t-approximation of these marginals is still suitable, while not exact …