Mencía, Javier; Sentana, Enrique - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 2015
We compare Semi-Nonparametric expansions of the Gamma distribution with alternative Laguerre expansions, showing that they substantially widen the range of feasible moments of positive random variables. Then, we combine those expansions with a component version of the Multiplicative Error Model...