Message-ID: <5815696.1075856641848.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 05:17:00 -0800 (PST) From: tanya.tamarchenko@enron.com To: vince.kaminski@enron.com, rabi.de@enron.com, jaesoo.lew@enron.com Subject: Re: Suggestion: implementing VAR based on non-normal log-returns simulations Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Tanya Tamarchenko X-To: Vince J Kaminski, Rabi De, Jaesoo Lew X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Vincent_Kaminski_Jun2001_5\Notes Folders\Var X-Origin: Kaminski-V X-FileName: vkamins.nsf Everybody, we were talking for a while about using non-normal distributions in the Monte-Carlo simulations in our VAR model. I put together some suggestion regarding this. The text is under O:\_Dropbox\Tanya\non_normal_logs.doc Look through this 3 page document, and let me know what you think, please. Tanya