1. Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Spain;2. Departament de Matemàtiques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Abstract:
This paper introduces the mixture of left–right truncated normal distributions, from the spreads between bid and ask prices, as a statistical model for handle non-normality of asset price returns. It has been proved that there is only one maximum for the likelihood function of the new model.