Earlier studies which applied the family of stable Paretian distributions to financial data are inconclusive and contradictory. In this article I estimate the parameters of the model by the Feuerverger-McDunnough method which enables the application of maximum likelihood rhethods. Based on...

The statistical analysis of short-run exchange-rate data shows that there is strong heteroskedasticity and serial dependence of volatility. In addition, the empirical distributions are leptokurtic. The model of generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) seems to be ideally...