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A multivariate multifractal model for return fluctuations

Statistical Mechanics 2008-12-02 v1 Statistical Finance

Abstract

In this paper we briefly review the recently inrtroduced Multifractal Random Walk (MRW) that is able to reproduce most of recent empirical findings concerning financial time-series : no correlation between price variations, long-range volatility correlations and multifractal statistics. We then focus on its extension to a multivariate context in order to model portfolio behavior. Empirical estimations on real data suggest that this approach can be pertinent to account for the nature of both linear and non-linear correlation between stock returns at all time scales.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0009260,
  title  = {A multivariate multifractal model for return fluctuations},
  author = {E. Bacry and J. Delour and J. F. Muzy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0009260},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

To be published in the Proceeding of the APFA2 conference (Liege, Belgium, July 2000) in the journal Quantitative Finance