- A Appendix A.1 Additional tables year min max mean variance kurtosis skewness 2002-0.69 0.85 0.22 0.11-0.28-0.45 2003-0.66 0.81 0.12 0.09-0.56 0.00 2004-0.66 0.82 0.05 0.09-0.77 0.07 2005-0.69 0.88 0.07 0.09-0.24-0.05 2006-0.61 0.77 0.13 0.08-0.65-0.27 2007-0.63 0.80 0.10 0.09-0.48-0.18 2008-0.51 0.93 0.30 0.10-0.66-0.25 2009-0.56 0.95 0.41 0.10-0.11-0.67 2010-0.64 0.96 0.41 0.12-0.22-0.68 2011-0.55 0.92 0.34 0.10-0.50-0.43 2012-0.82 0.81 0.16 0.10-0.60-0.22 2013-0.81 0.85 0.08 0.09-0.45-0.18 2014-0.76 0.78 0.05 0.11-0.73-0.13 2015-0.73 0.77 0.02 0.08-0.47-0.04 2016-0.72 0.82 0.04 0.08-0.57 0.09 2017-0.71 0.78 0.09 0.09-0.43-0.12
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