Introduction -- An overview of the literature -- Models without diffusion -- Technology, diffusion, and growth: a key trinomial -- Models with exogenous diffusion -- Models with endogenous diffusion -- An alternative approach: the advantages of continuous-time quantitative methods -- Econometric...

One of the key components of financial risk management is risk measurement. This typically requires modeling, estimating and forecasting tail-related quantities of the asset returns’ conditional distribution. Recent advances in the financial econometrics literature have developed several...