This paper presents a new financial market simulator that may be used as a tool in both industry and academia for research in market micro-structure. It allows multiple automated traders and/or researchers to simultaneously connect to an exchange-like environment, where they are able to...

Long term memory effects in stock market indices that represent internationally diversified stocks are analyzed in this paper and the results are compared with the S&P 500 index. The Hurst exponent and the Detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) technique are the tools used for this analysis. The...

This paper introduces a new methodology for an alternative calculation of market volatility index based on a multinomial tree approximation of a stochastic volatility model. The estimation is performed by constructing synthetic options with consistent properties. Several variants of this index...

The investment fund replication techniques and related financial product have been developed in recent years. It is understood that investing in the replicated fund can help investors gain similar returns without suffering drawbacks of the target fund. However, it is difficult to produce...

CUTTING-EDGE DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGH-FREQUENCY FINANCIAL ECONOMETRICS In recent years, the availability of high-frequency data and advances in computing have allowed financial practitioners to design systems that can handle and analyze this information. Handbook of Modeling High-Frequency Data in...