Discrete Time Series, Processes, and Applications in Finance 2013 Edition Contributor(s): Zumbach, Gilles (Author) |
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ISBN: 3642436544 ISBN-13: 9783642436543 Publisher: Springer
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2014 Click for more in this series: Springer Finance |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Game Theory - Mathematics | Applied - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General |
Dewey: 330.015 |
Series: Springer Finance |
Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (1.06 lbs) 322 pages |
Features: Bibliography |
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Publisher Description: Most financial and investment decisions are based on considerations of possible future changes and require forecasts on the evolution of the financial world. Time series and processes are the natural tools for describing the dynamic behavior of financial data, leading to the required forecasts. This book presents a survey of the empirical properties of financial time series, their descriptions by means of mathematical processes, and some implications for important financial applications used in many areas like risk evaluation, option pricing or portfolio construction. The statistical tools used to extract information from raw data are introduced. Extensive multiscale empirical statistics provide a solid benchmark of stylized facts (heteroskedasticity, long memory, fat-tails, leverage...), in order to assess various mathematical structures that can capture the observed regularities. The author introduces a broad range of processes and evaluates them systematically against the benchmark, summarizing the successes and limitations of these models from an empirical point of view. The outcome is that only multiscale ARCH processes with long memory, discrete multiplicative structures and non-normal innovations are able to capture correctly the empirical properties. In particular, only a discrete time series framework allows to capture all the stylized facts in a process, whereas the stochastic calculus used in the continuum limit is too constraining. The present volume offers various applications and extensions for this class of processes including high-frequency volatility estimators, market risk evaluation, covariance estimation and multivariate extensions of the processes. The book discusses many practical implications and is addressed to practitioners and quants in the financial industry, as well as to academics, including graduate (Master or PhD level) students. The prerequisites are basic statistics and some elementary financial mathematics. |
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