Financial Econometrics

Argomenti del programma: 1 Introduction. Asset returns. Stylized facts: asymmetry, kurtosis and volatility clustering. Stochastic processes: stationarity, purely random processes. Random walks and martingales. Review of prediction theory. Optimal prediction. (Lectures 1-3) 2 Volatility measurement and analysis: autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (ARCH): model specification, properties, maximum likelihood estimation, prediction.

Argomenti del programma: 1 Introduction. Asset returns. Stylized facts: asymmetry, kurtosis and volatility clustering. Stochastic processes: stationarity, purely random processes. Random walks and martingales. Review of prediction theory. Optimal prediction. (Lectures 1-3) 2 Volatility measurement and analysis: autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (ARCH): model specification, properties, maximum likelihood estimation, prediction.