Quantitative Financial Economics: Stocks, Bonds and Foreign Exchange (Financial Economics and Quantitative Analysis Series) - Hardcover

Cuthbertson, Keith

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9780471953593: Quantitative Financial Economics: Stocks, Bonds and Foreign Exchange (Financial Economics and Quantitative Analysis Series)

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ISBN 10: 0471953598 ISBN 13: 9780471953593

Publisher: Wiley, 1996

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Quantitative Financial Economics Stocks, Bonds and Foreign Exchange Quantitative techniques in finance have become vitally important to academics and professionals in the financial markets looking to gain a more profitable edge. Quantitative Financial Economics provides a comprehensive introduction to models of economic behaviour in financial markets, focusing on discrete time series analysis. It covers the most recent theoretical and econometric advances in the field, including:
* Models of noise trader behaviour and short-termism
* Rational and intrinsic bubbles
* Chaos and time varying risk
* Non-stationarity and cointegration
* Rational expectations
* ARCH and GARCH models
The author demonstrates how competing theoretical models may be tested and provides illustrative empirical results and theories from the stock, bond and foreign exchange markets. With a judicious blend of theory and practice Quantitative Financial Economics progresses from simple to more complex theoretical models and empirical tests, making it accessible to both students and practitioners undertaking research into the behaviour of asset returns and prices.

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Quantitative Financial Economics provides a comprehensive introduction to models of economic behaviour in financial markets, focusing on analysis in discrete time. Following the huge success of the first edition, this second edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect new developments in theory and practice, including:

Behavioural finance: Preferences, arbitrage and learning
Mean-variance and intertemporal asset allocation
Performance of mutual and hedge funds
Momentum, value-glamour strategies, style investing, market timing.
Stochastic discount factor models: Equity premium and volatility puzzles
Affine and cash-in-advance models
Value at risk: Monte Carlo simulation, bootstrapping.
Market microstructure: FX markets, technical trading, chartism
Calibration, regime switching, data snooping, non-linear models.

The authors provide theories and tests of competing ideas in financial markets using examples from the stock, bond and foreign exchange markets. Emphasis is placed on how models inform real-world decisions, making this book accessible to both students and quants practitioners studying the behaviour of asset returns and prices.

The book has a supporting website wiley.co.uk/cuthbertson which includes questions and answers, illustrative Excel and GAUSS programmes and econometrics notes.

About the Author:

Keith Cuthbertson is Professor of Finance at CASS Business School, City University, London. He has been an advisor to the Bank of England and UK Treasury and a visitor at the Federal Reserve, Washington DC and Bundesbank Professor at the Freie University, Berlin. He has held chairs at the University of Newcastle and Tanaka Business School, Imperial College, as well as undertaking consultancy with financial institutions.

Dirk Nitzsche is an Associate Professor in Finance at CASS Business School and previously was at the Tanaka Business School, Imperial College.

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