This book provides a broad, mature, and systematic introduction to current financial econometric models and their applications to modeling and prediction of financial time series data. It utilizes real-world examples and real financial data throughout the book to apply the models and methods described.br br pThe author begins with basic characteristics of financial time series data before covering three main topics p ul liAnalysis and application of univariate financial time seriesli liThe return series of multiple assetsli liBayesian inference in finance methodsli ul pKey features of the new edition include additional coverage of modern day topics such as arbitrage, pair trading, realized volatility, and credit risk modeling a smooth transition from S-Plus to R and expanded empirical financial data sets.p pThe overall objective of the book is to provide some knowledge of financial time series, introduce some statistical tools useful for analyzing these series and gain experience in