The past twenty years have
seen an extraordinary growth in the use of quantitative methods in financial markets.
Finance professionals now routinely use sophisticated statistical techniques in portfolio
management, proprietary trading, risk management, financial consulting, and securities
regulation. This graduate-level textbook is intended for PhD students, advanced MBA
students, and industry professionals interested in the econometrics of financial modeling.
The book covers the entire spectrum of empirical finance, including: the predictability of
asset returns, tests of the Random Walk Hypothesis, the microstructure of securities
markets, event analysis, the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory,
the term structure of interest rates, dynamic models of economic equilibrium, and
nonlinear financial models such as ARCH, neural networks, statistical fractals, and chaos
theory.
Each chapter develops
statistical techniques within the context of a particular financial application. This
exciting new text contains a unique and accessible combination of theory and practice,
bringing state-of-the-art statistical techniques to the forefront of financial
applications. Each chapter also includes a discussion of recent empirical evidence, for
example, the rejection of the Random Walk Hypothesis, as well as problems designed to help
readers incorporate what they have read into their own applications.
Reviews:
"The definitive work
explaining this complex but important field of academic endeavor. Oh, and by the way, it's
not just academic. The big question that financial econometircs addresses is: What can you
learn about the future from the financial data available from the past? This broad issue
can be specified in many different ways, and all the important ones are discussed in the
book. . . . The vast literature on all the topics examined is assessed, rendered coherent,
and then analysed by three men who themselves have made significant advances in the
field."--Ruben Lee, London Financial Market
"This book is
sophisticated, yet accessible; full of details, yet intriguing. . . . Instructors will
appreciate the attempt to make each chapter as self contained as possible which leaves
them free to choose specified sequences of topics. Professionals will be pleased with the
quick and authoritative introductions to important areas of Finance. . . . [A] well
written introduction (indeed, something more) to Financial Econometrics. It is alert,
explicit and articulate about assumptions. . . a splendid offering. . . . "--Maurizio
Tiso, Review of Financial Studies
"Written by the
"A" team of financial empiricism, it is a long awaited book. It covers many
topics one could only usually find couched in the technical jargon of research papers,
presented in this volume with pedagogical intentions. The language, while remaining
technical, is quite accessible. It can be effortlessly read by scientific traders with
standard knowledge of statistical methods. . . . This book should be made mandatory
reading in research departments."--Derivative Strategies
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Introduction
The Predictability of Asset
Returns
Market Microstructure
Event-Study Analysis
The Capital Asset Pricing
Model
Multifactor Pricing Models
Present-Value Relations
Intertemporal Equilibrium
Models
Derivative Pricing Models
Fixed-Income Securities
Term-Structure Models
Nonlinearities in Financial
Data
App. A.1Linear Instrumental
Variables
App. A.2Generalized Method
of Moments
App. A.3Serially Correlated
and Heteroskedastic Errors
App. A.4GMM and Maximum
Likelihood
References
Author Index
610 pages