EDITORIAL NOTE: INTRODUCTION TO THE INAUGURAL SPECIAL ISSUE

Abstract

The Annals of Financial Economics was first published in 2006, and has published in the first eight years a number of theoretical and empirical papers on numerous topics in financial economics and financial econometrics. Now in its ninth year, it is pleasing that the first special issue of the journal will be published in the important area of “Recent Developments in Quantitative Finance”, comprising several interesting and important papers by some leading researchers in financial econometrics and empirical finance. BasedonselectedpapersfromtheInternationalConferenceoftheTaiwanFinance