Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Classical Time Series Models and Financial Series -- 1.1 Stationary Processes -- 1.2 ARMA and ARIMA Models -- 1.3 Financial Series -- 1.4 Random Variance Models -- 1.5 Bibliographical Notes -- 1.6 Exercises -- Part I Univariate GARCH...

This paper introduces a new class of observation-driven models, including score models as a special case. This new class inherits and extends the basic ideas behind the development of score models and addresses a number of unsolved issues in the score literature. In particular, the new class of...