Cotter, John
;
Dowd, Kevin
(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2005-12-14)
This paper applies the Extreme-Value (EV) Generalised Pareto distribution to the
extreme tails of the return distributions for the S&P500, FT100, DAX, Hang Seng,
and Nikkei225 futures contracts. It then uses tail estimators ...