This book represents an integration of theory, methods, and examples
using the S-PLUS statistical modeling language and the S+FinMetrics
module to facilitate the practice of financial econometrics. It is the
first book to show the power of S-PLUS for the analysis of time series
data. This second edition is updated to cover S+FinMetrics 2.0 and
includes new chapters on copulas, nonlinear regime switching models,
continuous-time financial models, generalized method of moments,
semi-nonparametric conditional density models, and the efficient method
of moments. The book is written for researchers and practitioners in the
finance industry, academic researchers in economics and finance, and
advanced MBA and graduate students in economics and finance. Readers are
assumed to have a basic knowledge of S-PLUS and a solid grounding in
basic statistics and time series concepts.