This paper provides high-dimensional and flexible importance sampling procedures for the likelihood evaluation of dynamic latent variable models involving finite or infi nite mixtures leading to possibly heavy tailed and/or multi-modal target densities. Our approach is based upon the efficient...

Bivariate mixture models have been used to explain the stochastic behavior of daily price changes and trading volume on fmancial markets. In this class of models price changes and volume follow a mixture of bivariate distributions with the unobservable number of price relevant information...

In this paper we develop a dynamic model for integer counts to capture the dis- creteness of price changes for financial transaction prices. Our model rests on an autoregressive multinomial component for the direction of the price change and a dynamic count data component for the size of the...