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Topics in structural VAR econometrics
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ISBN: 3540619429 3642644813 3642606237 9783540619420 Year: 1997 Publisher: Berlin: Springer,

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In recent years a growing interest in the structural V AR approach (SV AR) has followed the path-breaking works by Blanchard and Watson (1986), Bernanke (1986) and Sims (1986), especially in the U.S. applied macroeconometric literature. The approach can be used in two different, partially overlapping, directions: the interpretation of business cycle fluctuations of a small number of significant macroeconomic variables and the identification of the effects of different policies. SV AR literature shows a common feature: the attempt to "organise", in a "structural" theoretical sense, instantaneous correlations among the relevant variables. In non-structural V AR modelling, instead, correlations are normally hidden in the variance­ covariance matrix of the V AR model innovations. of independent V AR analysis tries to isolate ("identify") a set shocks by means of a number of meaningful theoretical restrictions. The shocks can be regarded as the ultimate source of stochastic variation of the vector of variables which can all be seen as potentially endogenous. Looking at the development of SV AR literature we felt that it still lacked a formal general framework which could embrace the several types of models so far proposed for identification and estimation. This is the second edition of the book, which originally appeared as number 381 of the Springer series "Lecture notes in Economics of the first edition was Carlo and Mathematical Systems". The author Giannini.


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Dynamic models for volatility and heavy tails
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ISSN: 20592507 ISBN: 9781107034723 9781107630024 9781139540933 1107630029 1107034728 1107327121 1107333563 1107335221 1107336880 1139540939 Year: 2013 Volume: 52 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The volatility of financial returns changes over time and, for the last thirty years, Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (GARCH) models have provided the principal means of analyzing, modeling and monitoring such changes. Taking into account that financial returns typically exhibit heavy tails - that is, extreme values can occur from time to time - Andrew Harvey's new book shows how a small but radical change in the way GARCH models are formulated leads to a resolution of many of the theoretical problems inherent in the statistical theory. The approach can also be applied to other aspects of volatility. The more general class of Dynamic Conditional Score models extends to robust modeling of outliers in the levels of time series and to the treatment of time-varying relationships. The statistical theory draws on basic principles of maximum likelihood estimation and, by doing so, leads to an elegant and unified treatment of nonlinear time-series modeling.


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Stochastic calculus for finance
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ISBN: 9780521175739 9781107002647 9781139017367 9781139551748 1139551744 1139017365 9781139549240 1139549243 1283610809 9781283610803 9786613923257 6613923257 1107002648 0521175739 1316089258 1139564072 1139550497 1139555456 1139554204 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This book focuses specifically on the key results in stochastic processes that have become essential for finance practitioners to understand. The authors study the Wiener process and Itô integrals in some detail, with a focus on results needed for the Black-Scholes option pricing model. After developing the required martingale properties of this process, the construction of the integral and the Itô formula (proved in detail) become the centrepiece, both for theory and applications, and to provide concrete examples of stochastic differential equations used in finance. Finally, proofs of the existence, uniqueness and the Markov property of solutions of (general) stochastic equations complete the book. Using careful exposition and detailed proofs, this book is a far more accessible introduction to Itô calculus than most texts. Students, practitioners and researchers will benefit from its rigorous, but unfussy, approach to technical issues. Solutions to the exercises are available online.


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Complete and incomplete econometric models
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ISBN: 9780691140025 0691140022 9786612936289 9786612473159 1400835240 128293628X 1282473158 9781400835249 9781282473157 9781282936287 Year: 2010 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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Econometric models are widely used in the creation and evaluation of economic policy in the public and private sectors. But these models are useful only if they adequately account for the phenomena in question, and they can be quite misleading if they do not. In response, econometricians have developed tests and other checks for model adequacy. All of these methods, however, take as given the specification of the model to be tested. In this book, John Geweke addresses the critical earlier stage of model development, the point at which potential models are inherently incomplete. Summarizing and extending recent advances in Bayesian econometrics, Geweke shows how simple modern simulation methods can complement the creative process of model formulation. These methods, which are accessible to economics PhD students as well as to practicing applied econometricians, streamline the processes of model development and specification checking. Complete with illustrations from a wide variety of applications, this is an important contribution to econometrics that will interest economists and PhD students alike.


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The economics of inaction : stochastic control models with fixed costs
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ISBN: 9780691135052 0691135053 9786612158735 1282158732 140082981X 9781400829811 9781282158733 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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In economic situations where action entails a fixed cost, inaction is the norm. Action is taken infrequently, and adjustments are large when they occur. Interest in economic models that exhibit ''lumpy'' behavior of this kind has exploded in recent years, spurred by growing evidence that it is typical in many important economic decisions, including price setting, investment, hiring, durable goods purchases, and portfolio management. In The Economics of Inaction, leading economist Nancy Stokey shows how the tools of stochastic control can be applied to dynamic problems of decision making under uncertainty when fixed costs are present. Stokey provides a self-contained, rigorous, and clear treatment of two types of models, impulse and instantaneous control. She presents the relevant results about Brownian motion and other diffusion processes, develops methods for analyzing each type of problem, and discusses applications to price setting, investment, and durable goods purchases. This authoritative book will be essential reading for graduate students and researchers in macroeconomics.

Nonstationary panels, panel cointegration, and dynamic panels
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ISBN: 0762306882 1849500657 9786611022525 1281022527 0080521975 9781849500654 9780080521978 9780762306886 Year: 2000 Volume: 15 Publisher: New York : JAI,

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This volume is dedicated to two recent intensive areas of research in the econometrics of panel data, namely nonstationary panels and dynamic panels. It includes a comprehensive survey of the nonstationary panel literature including panel unit root tests, spurious panel regressions and panel cointegration tests. In addition, it provides recent developments in the estimation of dynamic panel data models using generalized method of moments. The volume includes eleven chapters written by twenty authors. These chapters: investigate better methods of estimating dynamic panels; develop methods for estimating and testing hypotheses for cointegrating vectors in dynamic panels; extend the concept of serial correlation common features analysis to nonstationary panel data models; study the local power of panel unit root test statistics; derive the asymptotic distributions of various estimators for the panel cointegrated regression model; propose a unit root test in the presence of structural change; develop a new limit theory for panel data that may be cross-sectionally heterogeneous; propose stationarity tests for a heterogeneous panel data model; derive instrumental variable estimators for a semiparametric partially linear dynamic panel data model; and conduct Monte Carlo experiments to study the small sample properties of a growth convergence equation. This collection of papers should prove useful for practitioners and researchers working with panel data.

Co-integration, error correction, and the econometric analysis of non-stationary data
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ISBN: 0198288107 0198287003 0191595896 9786612052330 0191521582 1282052330 9780191521584 9780198288107 9780198287001 Year: 1997 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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Considering the econometric analysis of both stationary and non-stationary processes, which may be linked by equilibrium relationships, this text provides a wide-ranging account of the main tools, techniques, models, concepts, and distributions involved in the modelling of integrated processes.

Econometrics
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ISBN: 0691010188 9780691010182 Year: 2000 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.): Princeton university press,

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"Hayashi's Econometrics introduces first-year Ph.D. students to standard graduate econometrics material from a modern perspective. It covers all the standard material necessary for understanding the principal techniques of econometrics from ordinary least squares through cointegration. The book is also distinctive in developing both time-series and cross-section analysis fully, giving the reader a unified framework for understanding and integrating results."

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Quantitative methods (economics) --- Econometrics. --- Econométrie --- Econometrics --- 330.115 --- AA / International- internationaal --- 303.0 --- 305.970 --- 303.6 --- 303.2 --- 303.5 --- 305.974 --- 330.015195 --- #SBIB:303H66 --- Economics, Mathematical --- Statistics --- Econometrie --- Kwantitatieve methoden (economie) --- Statistische technieken in econometrie. Wiskundige statistiek (algemene werken en handboeken). --- Algemeenheden: Autoregression and moving average representation. ARIMA. ARMAX. Lagrange multiplier. Wald. Function (mis) specification. Autocorrelation. Homoscedasticity. Heteroscedasticity. ARCH. GARCH. Integration and co-integration. Unit roots. --- Raming : theorie (wiskundige statistiek). Bayesian analysis and inference. --- Spreiding en deviatie (wiskundige statistiek). Curtosis. Moments. GMM. --- Theorie van correlatie en regressie. (OLS, adjusted LS, weighted LS, restricted LS, GLS, SLS, LIML, FIML, maximum likelihood). Parametric and non-parametric methods and theory (wiskundige statistiek). --- Time varying coefficients. Kalman Filter. --- 330.115 Econometrie --- Econométrie --- Statistische technieken in econometrie. Wiskundige statistiek (algemene werken en handboeken) --- Spreiding en deviatie (wiskundige statistiek). Curtosis. Moments. GMM --- Theorie van correlatie en regressie. (OLS, adjusted LS, weighted LS, restricted LS, GLS, SLS, LIML, FIML, maximum likelihood). Parametric and non-parametric methods and theory (wiskundige statistiek) --- Raming : theorie (wiskundige statistiek). Bayesian analysis and inference --- Algemeenheden: Autoregression and moving average representation. ARIMA. ARMAX. Lagrange multiplier. Wald. Function (mis) specification. Autocorrelation. Homoscedasticity. Heteroscedasticity. ARCH. GARCH. Integration and co-integration. Unit roots --- Time varying coefficients. Kalman Filter --- Économétrie --- Économétrie


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Anticipating correlations : a new paradigm for risk management
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ISBN: 9780691116419 0691116415 128215821X 1400830192 9786612158216 9781282158214 9781400830190 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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Financial markets respond to information virtually instantaneously. Each new piece of information influences the prices of assets and their correlations with each other, and as the system rapidly changes, so too do correlation forecasts. This fast-evolving environment presents econometricians with the challenge of forecasting dynamic correlations, which are essential inputs to risk measurement, portfolio allocation, derivative pricing, and many other critical financial activities. In Anticipating Correlations, Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Engle introduces an important new method for estimating correlations for large systems of assets: Dynamic Conditional Correlation (DCC). Engle demonstrates the role of correlations in financial decision making, and addresses the economic underpinnings and theoretical properties of correlations and their relation to other measures of dependence. He compares DCC with other correlation estimators such as historical correlation, exponential smoothing, and multivariate GARCH, and he presents a range of important applications of DCC. Engle presents the asymmetric model and illustrates it using a multicountry equity and bond return model. He introduces the new FACTOR DCC model that blends factor models with the DCC to produce a model with the best features of both, and illustrates it using an array of U.S. large-cap equities. Engle shows how overinvestment in collateralized debt obligations, or CDOs, lies at the heart of the subprime mortgage crisis--and how the correlation models in this book could have foreseen the risks. A technical chapter of econometric results also is included. Based on the Econometric and Tinbergen Institutes Lectures, Anticipating Correlations puts powerful new forecasting tools into the hands of researchers, financial analysts, risk managers, derivative quants, and graduate students.

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International financial management --- Finance --- Risk management --- Economic forecasting --- Correlation (Statistics) --- Econometrics models --- Mathematical models --- AA / International- internationaal --- 305.970 --- 303.5 --- -336.76 --- -Risk management --- -Correlation (Statistics) --- 332.015195 --- Least squares --- Mathematical statistics --- Probabilities --- Regression analysis --- Statistics --- Instrumental variables (Statistics) --- Insurance --- Management --- Economics --- Forecasting --- Economic indicators --- Funding --- Funds --- Currency question --- Algemeenheden: Autoregression and moving average representation. ARIMA. ARMAX. Lagrange multiplier. Wald. Function (mis) specification. Autocorrelation. Homoscedasticity. Heteroscedasticity. ARCH. GARCH. Integration and co-integration. Unit roots. --- Theorie van correlatie en regressie. (OLS, adjusted LS, weighted LS, restricted LS, GLS, SLS, LIML, FIML, maximum likelihood). Parametric and non-parametric methods and theory (wiskundige statistiek). --- Econometric models --- Geldmarkt. Kapitaalmarkt --- Graphic methods --- 336.76 --- Theorie van correlatie en regressie. (OLS, adjusted LS, weighted LS, restricted LS, GLS, SLS, LIML, FIML, maximum likelihood). Parametric and non-parametric methods and theory (wiskundige statistiek) --- Algemeenheden: Autoregression and moving average representation. ARIMA. ARMAX. Lagrange multiplier. Wald. Function (mis) specification. Autocorrelation. Homoscedasticity. Heteroscedasticity. ARCH. GARCH. Integration and co-integration. Unit roots --- Finance - Econometrics models --- Risk management - Mathematical models --- Economic forecasting - Mathematical models --- Econometric models. --- Mathematical models.

Data mining in finance : advances in relational and hybrid methods
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ISBN: 0792378040 9786610206032 1280206039 0306470187 9780792378044 Year: 2000 Volume: SECS 547 Publisher: Boston: Kluwer,

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Data Mining in Finance presents a comprehensive overview of major algorithmic approaches to predictive data mining, including statistical, neural networks, ruled-based, decision-tree, and fuzzy-logic methods, and then examines the suitability of these approaches to financial data mining. The book focuses specifically on relational data mining (RDM), which is a learning method able to learn more expressive rules than other symbolic approaches. RDM is thus better suited for financial mining, because it is able to make greater use of underlying domain knowledge. Relational data mining also has a better ability to explain the discovered rules - an ability critical for avoiding spurious patterns which inevitably arise when the number of variables examined is very large. The earlier algorithms for relational data mining, also known as inductive logic programming (ILP), suffer from a relative computational inefficiency and have rather limited tools for processing numerical data. Data Mining in Finance introduces a new approach, combining relational data mining with the analysis of statistical significance of discovered rules. This reduces the search space and speeds up the algorithms. The book also presents interactive and fuzzy-logic tools for `mining' the knowledge from the experts, further reducing the search space. Data Mining in Finance contains a number of practical examples of forecasting S&P 500, exchange rates, stock directions, and rating stocks for portfolio, allowing interested readers to start building their own models. This book is an excellent reference for researchers and professionals in the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, knowledge discovery, and applied mathematics.

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Investments --- Stock price forecasting --- Data mining --- Data processing --- AA / International- internationaal --- 305.970 --- 303.0 --- 301 --- Algemeenheden: Autoregression and moving average representation. ARIMA. ARMAX. Lagrange multiplier. Wald. Function (mis) specification. Autocorrelation. Homoscedasticity. Heteroscedasticity. ARCH. GARCH. Integration and co-integration. Unit roots. --- Statistische technieken in econometrie. Wiskundige statistiek (algemene werken en handboeken). --- Techniek van statistische inlichtingen. Organisatie van de statistische enquêtes. Statistische kritiek. --- Investments -- Data processing. --- Stock price forecasting -- Data processing. --- Data mining. --- Data processing. --- Data structures (Computer scienc. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Finance. --- Data Structures and Information Theory. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Finance, general. --- Data structures (Computer science) --- Forecasting, Stock price --- Security price forecasting --- Stocks --- Business forecasting --- Algorithmic knowledge discovery --- Factual data analysis --- KDD (Information retrieval) --- Knowledge discovery in data --- Knowledge discovery in databases --- Mining, Data --- Database searching --- Techniek van statistische inlichtingen. Organisatie van de statistische enquêtes. Statistische kritiek --- Statistische technieken in econometrie. Wiskundige statistiek (algemene werken en handboeken) --- Algemeenheden: Autoregression and moving average representation. ARIMA. ARMAX. Lagrange multiplier. Wald. Function (mis) specification. Autocorrelation. Homoscedasticity. Heteroscedasticity. ARCH. GARCH. Integration and co-integration. Unit roots --- Prices --- Forecasting --- Data structures (Computer science). --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Information structures (Computer science) --- Structures, Data (Computer science) --- Structures, Information (Computer science) --- File organization (Computer science) --- Abstract data types (Computer science) --- Investments - Data processing --- Stock price forecasting - Data processing

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