Entropic information theory applied to uncertainty in financial markets

One of the most popular concepts used to measure the risk and the uncertainty is the variance and/or the standard-deviation. In this paper we explore the potentialities of the entropy as a measure of uncertainty in financial markets, and simultaneously verify if this measure take into account some b...

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Main Author: Dionísio, Andreia (author)
Other Authors: Menezes, Rui (author), Mendes, Diana (author)
Format: article
Language:por
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10174/6084
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:dspace.uevora.pt:10174/6084