This paper provides an up-to-date survey of the main theoretical developments in ACD modeling and empirical studies using financial data. First, we discuss the properties of the standard ACD specification and its extensions, existing diagnostic tests, and joint models for the arrival times of...

In this paper we address a challenging aspect that arises in the regulatory requirement of back-testing the accuracy of distributional forecasts. The latter are core to measurement and capitalization of counterparty risk for banks under the IMM (Internal Models Method). The problem is very...

This paper develops tests of the null hypothesis of linearity in the context of autoregressive models with Markov-switching means and variances. These tests are robust to the identification failures that plague conventional likelihood-based inference methods. The approach exploits the moments of...