Since the last decade we live in a digitalized world where many actions in human and economic life are monitored. This produces a continuous stream of new, rich and high quality data in the form of panels, repeated cross-sections and long time series . These data resources are available to many...

In this paper, we give an overview of the state-of-the-art in the econometric literature on the modeling of so-called financial point processes. The latter are associated with the random arrival of specific financial trading events, such as transactions, quote updates, limit orders or price...

This chapter reviews econometric models for which statistical inference requires intensive numerical computations. A common feature of such models is that they incorporate unobserved (or latent) variables, in addition to observed ones. This often implies that the latent variables have to be...