RT Journal Article T1 On idiosyncratic stochasticity of financial leverage effects A1 Bretó, Carles AB We model leverage as stochastic but independent of return shocks and of volatility and perform likelihood-based inference via the recently developed iterated filtering algorithm using S&P500 data, contributing new evidence to the still slim empirical support for random leverage variation. PB Elsevier SN 0167-7152 YR 2014 FD 2014-08 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/23480 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/23480 LA eng NO This work was supported by Spanish Government Project ECO2012-32401 and Spanish Program Juan de la Cierva (JCI-2010-06898). DS e-Archivo RD 20 may. 2024