Time Series Models for Business and Economic Forecasting

Philip Hans Franses is Professor of Applied Econometrics and Professor of Marketing Research at the Erasmus School of Economics. Dick van Dijk is Professor of Financial Econometrics at the Erasmus School of Economics. Anne Opschoor has recently completed a Ph.D. at the Erasmus School of Economics and is an Assistant Professor at the Free University.

• Preface; 1. Introduction and overview; 2. Key features of economic time series; 3. Useful concepts in univariate time series analysis; 4. Trends; 5. Seasonality; 6. Aberrant observations; 7. Conditional heteroskedasticity; 8. Non-linearity; 9. Multivariate time series; Index.

Review of the first edition: 'Reviews the more recent developments in modeling time series to focus on generating ex ante forecasts: seasonal unit roots, period models, aberrant observations, and common features. For each method, intuitive motivation and practical considerations are discussed in detail, making the book very readable … should be beneficial for students and instructors of applications-oriented courses as well as for practitioners who wish to obtain a first, but not too technical, impression of time series forecasting using modern, recently developed methods.' Journal of the American Statistical Association