The worlds of Wall Street and The City have always held a certain allure, but in recent years have left an indelible mark on the wider public consciousness and there has been a need to become more financially literate. The quantitative nature of complex financial transactions makes them a...

Symmetrized kernel estimators of the regression function developed by Yang (1981) and Stute (1984) possess attractive properties, including consistency and asymptotic normality. We propose and develop a class of kernel estimators of the regression slope, which extend symmetrized kernel...