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This course is designed to introduce various models for different areas in the financial markets. Topics include basic statistics, likelihood inference and Bayesian methods, regression analysis, financial time series, principal components analysis, and applications to financial data.
This textbook emphasizes the applications of statistics and probability to finance. The basics of probability and statistics are reviewed and more advanced topics in statistics, such as regression, ARMA and GARCH models, the bootstrap, and nonparametric regression using splines, are introduced as needed. The book covers the classical methods of finance such as portfolio theory, CAPM, and the Black-Scholes formula, and it introduces the somewhat newer area of behavioral finance. Applications and use of MATLAB and SAS software are stressed.
This book provides a broad, mature, and systematic introduction to current financial econometric models and their applications to modeling and prediction of financial time series data. It utilizes real-world examples and real financial data throughout the book to apply the models and methods described.
