This book is a practical guide for theory-based empirical analysis in economics that guides the reader through the first steps when moving between economic theory and applied research. The book provides a hands-on introduction to some of the techniques that economists use for econometric...

Introduction to R programming -- Statistics in finance -- Statistical analysis with R -- Time series analysis with R -- Basic theory of finance -- Modern portfolio theory and CAPM -- Interest rate swap and discount factor -- Discrete time model: tree model -- Continuous time model and the...