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The essential feature of a company is that it exists as a separate legal entity distinct from its members.  
A leptokurtic frequency distribution (or leptokurtotic distribution) has a larger number of values clustered at the peak and in the tails, than a comparable normal distribution with the same variance and mean.


This is the case even if one member owns all the shares. This is known as the separate personality principle.  This principle underpins the whole of company law.
A possible explanation for this shape is that the market under review is mean reverting for small market movements (explaining the clustering at the peak) and trending for large market movements (explaining the clustering in the tails).


The most important consequence of the separate personality principle is that of limited liability. The company is liable without limit for its own debts but, in a limited company, the members, as distinct from the company, have limited liability.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Company]]
* [[Frequency distribution]]
* [[Legal person]]
* [[Leptokurtosis]]
* [[Limited liability]]
* [[Lognormal frequency distribution]]
* [[Separate personality principle]]
* [[Mean reversion]]
* [[Normal distribution]]
* [[Normal frequency distribution]]
* [[Tail]]
* [[Trend analysis]]
* [[Volatility smile]]


[[Category:Regulation_and_Law]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]

Revision as of 17:35, 1 July 2022

A leptokurtic frequency distribution (or leptokurtotic distribution) has a larger number of values clustered at the peak and in the tails, than a comparable normal distribution with the same variance and mean.

A possible explanation for this shape is that the market under review is mean reverting for small market movements (explaining the clustering at the peak) and trending for large market movements (explaining the clustering in the tails).


See also