There is no denying the role of empirical research in finance and the remarkable progress of empirical techniques in this research field. This Special Issue focuses on the broad topic of "Empirical Finance" and includes novel empirical research associated with financial data. One example...

The existing literature of copula-based regression assumes that complete data are available, but this assumption is violated in many real applications. The present paper allows the regressand and regressors to be missing at random (MAR). We formulate a generalized regression model which unifies...