Handbook of Financial Econometrics and Statistics

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​The Handbook of Financial Econometrics and Statistics provides, in four volumes and over 100 chapters, a comprehensive overview of the primary methodologies in econometrics and statistics as applied to financial research. Including overviews of key concepts by the editors and in-depth contributions from leading scholars around the world, the Handbook is the definitive resource for both classic and cutting-edge theories, policies, and analytical techniques in the field. Volume 1 (Parts I and II) covers all of the essential theoretical and empirical approaches. Volumes 2, 3, and 4 feature contributed entries that showcase the application of financial econometrics and statistics to such topics as asset pricing, investment and portfolio research, option pricing, mutual funds, and financial accounting research. Throughout, the Handbook offers illustrative case examples and applications, worked equations, and extensive references, and includes both subject and author indices.​

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Introduction

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Introduction

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The Nobel Prize, Life, and Legacy

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Table of contents (99 entries)

Front Matter

Introduction to Financial Econometrics and Statistics

Experience, Information Asymmetry, and Rational Forecast Bias

Pages 63-100

An Appraisal of Modeling Dimensions for Performance Appraisal of Global Mutual Funds

Pages 101-119

Simulation as a Research Tool for Market Architects

Pages 121-147

Motivations for Issuing Putable Debt: An Empirical Analysis

Pages 149-185

Multi-Risk Premia Model of US Bank Returns: An Integration of CAPM and APT

Pages 187-206

Nonparametric Bounds for European Option Prices

Pages 207-231

Can Time-Varying Copulas Improve the Mean-Variance Portfolio?

Pages 233-251

Determinations of Corporate Earnings Forecast Accuracy: Taiwan Market Experience

Pages 253-277

Market-Based Accounting Research (MBAR) Models: A Test of ARIMAX Modeling

Pages 279-298

An Assessment of Copula Functions Approach in Conjunction with Factor Model in Portfolio Credit Risk Management

Pages 299-316

Assessing Importance of Time-Series Versus Cross-Sectional Changes in Panel Data: A Study of International Variations in Ex-Ante Equity Premia and Financial Architecture

Pages 317-348

Does Banking Capital Reduce Risk? An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis and GMM Approach

Pages 349-382

Evaluating Long-Horizon Event Study Methodology

Pages 383-411

The Effect of Unexpected Volatility Shocks on Intertemporal Risk-Return Relation

Pages 413-437

Combinatorial Methods for Constructing Credit Risk Ratings

Pages 439-483

Dynamic Interactions Between Institutional Investors and the Taiwan Stock Returns: One-Regime and Threshold VAR Models

Pages 485-518

Methods of Denoising Financial Data

Pages 519-538

Analysis of Financial Time Series Using Wavelet Methods

Pages 539-573

Editors and Affiliations

Department of Finance and Economics, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA

Center for PBBEF Research, North Brunswick, USA

About the editors

Cheng-Few Lee is a Distinguished Professor of Finance at Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University and was chairperson of the Department of Finance from 1988–1995. He has also served on the faculty of the University of Illinois (IBE Professor of Finance) and the University of Georgia. He has maintained academic and consulting ties in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and the United States for the past three decades. He has been a consultant to many prominent groups including, the American Insurance Group, the World Bank, the United Nations and The Marmon Group Inc., Wintek Corporation and Polaris Financial Group, etc. Professor Lee founded the Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting (RQFA) in 1990 and the Review of Pacific Basin Financial Markets and Policies (RPBFMP) in 1998, and serves as managing editor for both journals. He was also a co-editor of the Financial Review (1985–1991) and the Quarterly Review of Economics and Business (1987–1989). In the past thirty-two years, Dr. Lee has written numerous textbooks ranging in subject matter from financial management to corporate finance, security analysis and portfolio management to financial analysis, planning and forecasting, and business statistics. Dr. Lee has also published more than 200 articles in more than twenty different journals in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, and management. Professor Lee has been ranked the most published finance professor worldwide during 1953–2008.
Alice C. Lee is currently a Vice President in the Model Validation Group, Enterprise Risk Management, at State Street Corporation. Most recently, she was an Assistant Professor of Finance at San Francisco State University. She has over 20 years of experience and a diverse background, which includes academia, engineering, sales, and management consulting. Her primary areas of teaching and research are corporate finance and financial institutions. She is coauthor of Statistics for Business and Financial Economics, 2e (withCheng F. Lee and John C. Lee) and Financial Analysis, Planning and Forecasting, 2e (with Cheng F. Lee and John C. Lee). In addition, she has co-edited other annual publications including Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (with Cheng F. Lee).
John C. Lee is a Microsoft Certified Professional in Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Excel VBA. He has a Bachelor and Masters degree in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. John has worked over 20 years in both the business and technical fields as an accountant, auditor, systems analyst and as a business software developer. He is the author of the book on how to use MINITAB and Microsoft Excel to do statistical analysis which is a companion text to Statistics of Business and Financial Economics, of which he is one of the co-authors. In addition, he also published Financial Analysis, Planning and Forecasting, 2e (with Cheng F. Lee and Alice C. Lee). John has been a Senior Technology Officerat the Chase Manhattan Bank and Assistant Vice President at Merrill Lynch. Currently, he is the Director of the Center for PBBEF Research.

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