Abstract
As an asset is traded, its varying prices trace out an interesting time series. The price, at least in a general way, reflects some underlying value of the asset. For most basic assets, realistic models of value must involve many variables relating not only to the individual asset, but also to the asset class, the industrial sector(s) of the asset, and both the local economy and the general global economic conditions. Rather than attempting to model the value, we will confine our interest to modeling the price. The underlying assumption is that the price at which an asset trades is a “fair market price” that reflects the actual value of the asset.
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Gentle, J.E., Härdle, W.K. (2012). Modeling Asset Prices. In: Duan, JC., Härdle, W., Gentle, J. (eds) Handbook of Computational Finance. Springer Handbooks of Computational Statistics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17254-0_2
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