Modeling Financial Time Series with S-PLUS®

Eric Zivot is an associate professor and Gary Waterman Distinguished Scholar in the Economics Department, and adjunct associate professor of finance in the Business School at the University of Washington. He regularly teaches courses on econometric theory, financial econometrics and time series econometrics, and is the recipient of the Henry T. Buechel Award for Outstanding Teaching. He is an associate editor of Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics. He has published papers in the leading econometrics journals, including Econometrica, Econometric Theory, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, and the Review of Economics and Statistics. Jiahui Wang is an employee of Ronin Capital LLC. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington in 1997. He has published in leading econometrics journals such as Econometrica and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and is the Principal Investigator of National Science Foundation SBIR grants. In 2002 Dr. Wang was selected as one of the "2000 Outstanding Scholars of the 21st Century" by International Biographical Centre.

S and S-PLUS.- Time Series Specification, Manipulation, and Visualization in S-PLUS.- Time Series Concepts.- Unit Root Tests.- Modeling Extreme Values.- Time Series Regression Modeling.- Univariate GARCH Modeling.- Long Memory Time Series Modeling.- Rolling Analysis of Time Series.- Systems of Regression Equations.- Vector Autoregressive Models for Multivariate Time Series.- Cointegration.- Multivariate GARCH Modeling.- State Space Models.- Factor Models for Asset Returns.- Term Structure of Interest Rates.- Robust Change Detection.- Nonlinear Time Series Models.- Copulas.- Continuous-Time Models for Financial Time Series.- Generalized Method of Moments.- Seminonparametric Conditional Density Models.- Effcient Method of Moments.