Stable Paretian, or Fractal Hypothesis

Stable Paretian, or Fractal Hypothesis

In the characteristic function of the fractal family of distributions, the characteristic exponent alpha can range between one and two.

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Fractal
An object in which the parts are in some way related to the whole.

Distributions
Payments from fund or corporate cash flow. May include dividends from earnings, capital gains from sale of portfolio holdings and return of capital.

Alpha
The number of securities assigned to each of the participants in an underwriting syndicate.

Range
The high and low prices, or high and low bids and offers, recorded during a specified time.



SIMILAR TERMS
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Stability
The relative steadiness or safety of a security or fund compared to the market as a whole.

Stabilization
The action undertakes a country when it buys and sells its own currency to protect its exchange value.

Stabilize
To attempt to keep something at the same level, to avoid fluctuations.

Stabilizers
Automatic mechanisms that counteract the effects of the business cycle.



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SS1
Securities sales speaker box that transmits to all investment banks' regional trading and sales desks.

Stability
The relative steadiness or safety of a security or fund compared to the market as a whole.

Stabilization
The action undertakes a country when it buys and sells its own currency to protect its exchange value.

Stabilize
To attempt to keep something at the same level, to avoid fluctuations.

Stabilizers
Automatic mechanisms that counteract the effects of the business cycle.

Stable Paretian, or Fractal Hypothesis

Stag
Person who buys new share issues, hoping to resell them at a profit if the issue is oversubscribed.

Stagflation
The combination of stagnation and rising inflation, a development in the 1970s which classical economic theory could not account for.

Staggered board of directors
Occurs when a portion of directors are elected periodically, instead of all at once.

Staggering maturities
Hedging against interest rate movements by investment in short-, medium-, and long-term bonds.

Stagnant
Describes an economy that is not growing, but remaining in a state of recession.

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