Introduction To FInancial Econometrics

Master Finance - Université of Orléans

Notes: these teaching resources correspond to the course "Econometrics", that I taught in 2019 in the Master Finance (voie recherche) of the University of Orléans. This lecture is exclusively devoted to an Introduction to Financial Econometrics.

Introduction to financial econometrics

Chapter1_Describing_Financial_Series.pdf

Chapter 1: Describing Financial Series

  • Section 1: Introduction

  • Section 2: Financial Econometrics

  • Section 3: Financial Data

  • Section 4: Statistical Properties of Financial Data

  • Section 5: Stylized Facts

Chapter 2: Multiple Linear Regression Model

  • Section 1: Introduction

  • Section 2: The multiple linear regression model

  • Section 3: The ordinary least squares estimator

  • Section 4: Statistical properties of the OLS estimator

Chapter2_Linear_Model.pdf
Chapter3_Tests.pdf

Chapter 3: Overall fitting, significance, and misspecification tests

    • Section 1: Introduction

    • Section 2: Overall adjustment

    • Section 3: Statistical hypothesis testing

    • Section 4: Individual and global significance tests

    • Section 5: Misspecification tests

Chapter 4: Applications

  • Application 1: Performance evaluation and ranking

  • Application 2: Factor models

  • Application 3: Portfolio management

  • Application 4: Predictive regressions

Chapter4_Applications.pdf
Chapter5_Time_Series_Models.pdf

Chapter 5: Introduction to Time Series Models

    • Section 1: Introduction

    • Section 2: Stationarity

    • Section 3: Wold decomposition and prediction

    • Section 4: The Box-Jenkins modeling approach

    • Section 5: Univariate time series models

Chapter 6: Introduction to GARCH Models

  • Section 1: Introduction

  • Section 2: ARCH models

  • Section 3: GARCH models

  • Section 4: Extensions of GARCH models

Chapter6_GARCH.pdf