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Merton’s Portfolio Estimation with CVAR-MGarch: An Application to the Italian Stock Market

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The Merton’s framework is used for finding the solution of a portfolio problem. Then the quantities in this solution are estimated via a cointegrated vector autoregressive model for the mean part and a multivariate Garch for the volatility part. Finally a thousand is simulated by using the estimation before in a Euler scheme for the prices.

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Pierini, A. Merton’s Portfolio Estimation with CVAR-MGarch: An Application to the Italian Stock Market. J Indian Soc Probab Stat 19, 153–168 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41096-018-0038-z

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