Financial Econometrics
Financial econometrics for finance dissertations — time series analysis (stationarity — ADF and KPSS unit root tests, KPSS, PP test; autocorrelation — Ljung-Box Q-test; ARIMA modelling — Box-Jenkins methodology), volatility modelling (ARCH — Engle 1982, GARCH(1,1) — Bollerslev 1986, EGARCH — leverage effect, GJR-GARCH), cointegration (Engle-Granger two-step, Johansen trace and max eigenvalue tests, VECM — Vector Error Correction Model), panel data econometrics (Hausman test — fixed vs random effects, Driscoll-Kraay standard errors, GMM — Arellano-Bond dynamic panel), and software: EViews (time series — most common UK finance departments), Stata (panel data, survival analysis), R (quantmod, xts, rugarch, PerformanceAnalytics packages), and Python (pandas, statsmodels, arch library). Bloomberg terminal (available at most UK business schools) or Refinitiv Datastream for data.