During recent years, an increasing number of corporations have decided to raise external capital via markets for hybrid securities. Hybrid securities share characteristics of common stock and straight debt and appear in different forms, such as convertible debt, mandatory convertibles or...

In this book, the authors reject the theorem-proof approach as much as possible, and emphasize the practical application of econometrics. They show with examples how to calculate and interpret the numerical results. This book begins with students estimating simple univariate models, in a step by...

This book examines conventional time series in the context of stationary data prior to a discussion of cointegration, with a focus on multivariate models. The authors provide a detailed and extensive study of impulse responses and forecasting in the stationary and non-stationary context,...

The current world financial scene indicates at an intertwined and interdependent relationship between financial market activity and economic health. This book explains how the economic messages delivered by the dynamic evolution of financial asset returns are strongly related to option prices....

Zuverlässige Aussagen über die weitere Entwicklung unserer Volkswirtschaft, der Güter- und Finanzmärkte oder eines Betriebes sind nicht nur für Politiker und Unternehmer von großer Bedeutung, sondern betreffen auch jeden Einzelnen. In diesem Buch wird in kompakter Form die Fortsetzung...