This comprehensive Handbook presents the current state of art in the theory and methodology of macroeconomic data analysis. It is intended as a reference for graduate students and researchers interested in exploring new methodologies, but can also be employed as a graduate text. The Handbook...

pt. I. Properties of macroeconomic data -- pt. II. Models for macroeconomic data analysis -- pt. III. Estimation and evaluation frameworks in macroeconomics -- pt. IV. Applications I : dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models -- pt. V. Applications II : vector autoregressive models -- pt....

1 Introduction -- 2 Microstructure Foundations -- 3 Empirical Properties of High-Frequency Data -- 4 Financial Point Processes -- 5 Univariate Multiplicative Error Models -- 6 Generalized Multiplicative Error Models -- 7 Vector Multiplicative Error Models -- 8 Modelling High-Frequency Volatility...

In recent years numerous papers constructed or simulated financial markets at an agent level, aiming to explain the non-stationarity of price processes. All such papers agree that the heterogeneity of agents and of pricing models creates a dynamics in terms of pricing models used that explains...