Dramatic fluctuations in the stock market raise questions about whether actual prices correspond to fundamentals. Even if there are "bubbles", they may not distort real behaviour if managers base investment decisions on fundamentals. Using a new specification testing strategy based on combining...

This paper studies the limit distributions of Monte Carlo estimators of diffusion processes. Two types of estimators are examined. The first one is based on the Euler scheme applied to the original processes; the second applies the Euler scheme to a variance-stabilizing transformation of the...