Bias correction, explosive behavior, non-linearity, model selection, persistence, specification testing. - Bias Korrektur, explosives Verhalten, Nichtlinearität, Modellselektion, Persistenz, Spezifikationstests

Financial econometrics has developed into a very fruitful and vibrant research area in the last two decades. The availability of good data promotes research in this area, specially aided by online data and high-frequency data. These two characteristics of financial data also create challenges...

This book deals with problems related to unit roots and structural change, and the interplay between the two. The research agenda dealing with these topics have proved to be of importance to devise procedures that are reliable for inference and forecasting. Several important contributions have...