"I enjoyed reading this book, which offers a close to unique merging of detailed and careful empirics with the finance and time series theory associated with the study of asset pricing dynamics."--Neil Shephard, University of Oxford
"This well written text nicely balances new developments in various areas of theoretical and empirical finance, and it explains in a concise way how various models and methods are related."--Philip Hans Franses, Professor of Applied Econometrics, Econometric Institute, Erasmus University, Rotterdam