The most up-to-date and accessible guide to one of the fastest growing areas in financial analysis by one of Europes's leading teaching and researching teams. This classroom-tested advanced undergraduate and graduate textbook provides an in-depth treatment of non-linear models, including...

The so-called leverage hypothesis is that negative shocks to prices/ returns affect volatility more than equal positive shocks. Whether this is attributable to changing financial leverage is still subject to dispute but the terminology is in wide use. There are many tests of the leverage...