This book--an overview of contemporary topics related to the modelling of financial time series--is set against a backdrop of rapid expansions of interest in both the models themselves and the financial problems to which they are applied.

The book forms part of a new series of upper level textbooks, Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance and includes the following features:
* an exposition of the use of three popular computer packages used for econometric estimation - including Microfit
* end of chapter points for discussion
* contexts that provide background.