Structural changes often occur in economics and finance due to changes in preferences, technologies, institutional reforms, policies, crises and other factors. It is important to distinguish whether a structural change is abrupt or evolutionary, because the implications on econometric modelling...

Modelling and forecasting symbolic data, especially interval-valued time series (ITS) data, has received considerable attention in statistics and related fields. The core of available methods on ITS analysis is based on various applications of conventional linear modelling. However, few works...

Modelling and forecasting symbolic data, especially interval-valued time series (ITS) data, has received considerable attention in statistics and related fields. The core of available methods on ITS analysis is based on various applications of conventional linear modelling. However, few works...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 Methodology to detect extreme risk spillover -- chapter 3 VaR estimation -- chapter 4 Extreme risk spillover between Chinese stock markets and international stock markets -- chapter 5 Information spillover effects between Chinese futures market and spot market...

Using the daily data of Chinese 7-day repo rates from January 1, 1997 to December 31, 2008, this paper tests a variety of popular spot rate models, including single-factor diffusion, GARCH, Markov regime-switching and jump-diffusion models. We document that Chinese spot rates are subject to both...