In econometrics, Autoregressive Conditional Duration (ACD) models use high-frequency economic or financial duration data, which mostly exhibit irregular time intervals. The ACD model is widely used to examine the duration of transaction volume and duration of price variations in stock markets....

This chapter presents an empirical application of Bayesian MCMC estimation to the three main asset pricing models in use in the financial econometrics literature, namely, the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), the Fama-French (1992) three-factor model, and the Carhart (1997) four-factor model...

A novel dynamic asset-allocation approach is proposed where portfolios as well as portfolio strategies are updated at every decision period based on their past performance. For modeling, a general class of models is specified that combines a dynamic factor and a vector autoregressive model and...