Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) • Msc Finance

Here you can find a summary of the ARCH models. Basically, in this document you can find everything that the prof. said in the class. It contains explanation of different types of volatility, the basic ARCH model, conditional variance, transformation of the model into ARMA model, volatility clustering, testing for ARCH effects, diagnostic of the model. This summary helps you go through material without watching again the lengthy web-lectures. I practically wrote down everything what he said. It ...

Exam Asset pricing of 27-10-2017, with answers.

Here are the notes from the ARMA Model Lab session. The document includes all the steps with the explanation attached. There are 8 steps. 1 - Looking to the data, 2 - Looking at the autocorrelation plot, 3 - Estimate ARMA models, 4 - Construct residuals and check if there is autocorrelation, 5 - Construct the fit of the model with the test for homoscedasticity and the log of the VIX, 6 - Forecasting, 7 - Checking the forecast model with explanation of unbiasedness, accuracy, and efficiency, 8 -...

Summary of the 2nd lecture, week 1. It includes explanation of the logit model with an empirical example, estimation of the model, and how to build a ROC curve step by step as provided by the teacher in class. Also the interpretation of the coefficients is provided. The self-study questions and the multiple questions with the solutions are from the end of the book. The exam questions are from the exams provided by the lecturer.

Here are the exercises from Chapter 12 together with the solutions.

Summary of the 2nd lecture, week 1. It includes explanation of the logit model with an empirical example, estimation of the model, and how to build a ROC curve step by step as provided by the teacher in class. Also the interpretation of the coefficients is provided. This summary helps you go through material without watching again the lengthy web-lectures. I practically wrote down everything what he said. It helps also if you did not watch the weblecture, because you can find here everything wha...

Here are the exercises from Chapter 3 and 4 together with their solutions.

Summary of the 1st lecture, week 1. It includes explanations of the Dummy variables and interactions, visualisation of interaction effects, R-squared, Adjusted R-Square, Multicollinearity, interpretation of the entire Stata table, interpretation of the sign of the coefficients, p-values, t-values, and standard errors, Root MSE, and the F-test. This summary helps you go through material without watching again the lengthy web-lectures. I practically wrote down everything what he said. It helps al...

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This is an extensive summary. In this summary you can find a sentence or two about each graph and figure based on the authors conclusion. I took just what was important to know about the article. Section II is not considered.