The purpose of this book is to establish a connection between the traditional field of empirical economic research and the emerging area of empirical financial research, and to build a bridge between theoretical developments in these areas and their application in practice. Accordingly, it...

Duration series often exhibit long-range dependence and local nonstationarities. Here, exponential FARIMA (EFARIMA) and exponential SEMIFAR (ESEMIFAR) models are introduced. These models capture simultaneously nonstationarities in the mean as well as short- and long-range dependence, while...