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On the Distribution of Stock Price Differences

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  • Benoit Mandelbrot

    (International Business Machines, Yorktown Heights, New York)

  • Howard M. Taylor

    (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York)

Abstract

Price changes over a fixed number of transactions may have a Gaussian distribution. Price changes over a fixed time period may follow a stable Paretian distribution, whose variance is infinite. Since the number of transactions in any time period is random, the above statements are not necessarily in disagreement. A possible explanation is proposed by Taylob, and then shown by Mandelbrot to be intimately related to an earlier discussion of the specialists' function of ensuring the continuity of the market.

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  • Benoit Mandelbrot & Howard M. Taylor, 1967. "On the Distribution of Stock Price Differences," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 15(6), pages 1057-1062, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:oropre:v:15:y:1967:i:6:p:1057-1062
    DOI: 10.1287/opre.15.6.1057
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