Empirical Finance

An extensive summary of all the material discussed during the lectures.

The codes written during the matlab tutorial with a step by step explanation of what we are programming.

This summary provides the basis for unit roots. It contains an explanation of the unit root issues, transitory effects, permanent effect, random walk model (with drift), trend stationary process, how to solve the issues, de-trending, how to formally test for non-stationarity, Dikey-Fuller test, Augmented Dikey Fuller Test, and a real life example with step by step interpretation of the results table. This summary helps you go through material without watching again the lengthy web-lectures. I ...

Here is the summary from the models AR(1), MA(1), ARMA(2,1) step by step, explained with colours. If something is not understandable, please write it in the comments below. This summary helps you go through material without watching again the lengthy web-lectures. I practically wrote down everything what he said. It helps also if you did not watch the weblecture, because you can find here everything what he talked about.

This is the summary of forecasting with GARCH and Value at Risk. The summary contains an explaination of the derivation of the GARCH model, evaluation of volatility forecast, value at risk, testing the VaR, how to judge if the VaR is correct, an example of the model, and the criticism. This summary helps you go through material without watching again the lengthy web-lectures. I practically wrote down everything what he said. It helps also if you did not watch the weblecture, because you can fin...

This summary provides the basis for the ARMA models. It contains an explanation of the autocorrelation, White Noise, Partial Autocorrelation, Moving Average Model, Stationarity of the time series, weakly stationary, covariance stationary, model selection criteria, and how to interpret the graphs. This summary helps you go through material without watching again the lengthy web-lectures. I practically wrote down everything what he said. It helps also if you did not watch the weblecture, because ...

Here is a summary of the above models. The explanation is taken from the class. This summary contains everything what we talked about in terms of interpretation, estimation, and diagnostic checks. This summary helps you go through material without watching again the lengthy web-lectures. I practically wrote down everything what he said. It helps also if you did not watch the weblecture, because you can find here everything what he talked about.

Here you can find a summary of the ARCH models. Basically, in this document you can find everything that the prof. said in the class. It contains explanation of different types of volatility, the basic ARCH model, conditional variance, transformation of the model into ARMA model, volatility clustering, testing for ARCH effects, diagnostic of the model. This summary helps you go through material without watching again the lengthy web-lectures. I practically wrote down everything what he said. It ...