This impressive Handbook presents the quantitative techniques that are commonly employed in empirical finance research together with real-world, state-of-the-art research examples.

This paper compares the pricing and hedging performance of the LMM model against two spot-rate models, namely Hull-White and Black-Karasinski, and the more recent Swap Market Model from an Asset-Liability-Management (ALM) perspective. In contrast to previous studies in the literature, our...

This paper tests the co-terminal swap market model (SMM) pricing and hedging performance on Bermudan swaptions. To our knowledge, the drift for SMM is derived explicitly for the first time here, and the procedures for calibration and simulation using a collection of forward swap rates are also...

This paper re-examines the issue of persistence and mean reversion in UK stock returns in the light of new developments published in Chow and Denning (1993). The random walk hypothesis is tested using multiple variance ratios for returns on the Financial Times All Share Index and 330 individual...

This paper re-examines the issues of persistence and mean reversion in UK stock returns in the light of new developments published in Chow and Denning (1993). The random walk hypothesis is tested using multiple variance ratios for returns on the Financial Times All Share Index and 330 individual...

Hitherto, index volatility has been modelled using the history of index returns but not the returns histories of the stocks that define the index. Theoretical models that relate volatility to the quantity of information are extended to a multi-asset setting and it is deduced that stock returns...

The information content of implied volatilities and intra-day returns is compared, in the context of forecasting index volatility over horizons from one to twenty days. Forecasts of two measures of realised volatility are obtained after estimating ARCH models using daily index returns, daily...

The volatility process of the Samp;P 100 index and all its constituent stocks are compared after estimating ARCH models from ten years of daily returns, from 1983 to 1992. The leverage effect of Black (1976) is estimated from an extension of the asymmetric volatility model of Glosten et al...

If returns on two assets share common volatility components, the prices of options on the assets should be interdependent and the implied volatility spread should mean revert. We, first demonstrate, using the canonical correlation method, that there is a common component among the volatilities...

The use of close-to-close returns underestimates returns correlation because international stock markets have different trading hours. With the availability of 16:00 (London time) stock market series, we find dynamics of daily correlation and daily covariance, estimated using two...