A Model for Daily Equity Index Returns
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Document ID: 2000-64 (previously 2000/031)
Published on: 1st November 2000
Author: Craig Turnbull, John Hibbert
Modelling daily equity index returns brings its own challenges, namely the bursts in volatility and occasional large daily dislocations. The note presents the model that is capable of generating real-world daily alike returns. The demonstrated approach adopts the GARCH and the jump diffusion process.