INTRO DERIV SECUR, FIN (2ND ED‪)‬

Written by two of the most distinguished finance scholars in the industry, this introductory textbook on derivatives and risk management is highly accessible in terms of the concepts as well as the mathematics. With its economics perspective, this rewritten and streamlined second edition textbook, is closely connected to real markets, and: Beginning at a level that is comfortable to lower division college students, the book gradually develops the content so that its lessons can be profitably used by business majors, arts, science, and engineering graduates as well as MBAs who would work in the finance industry. Contents: About the Authors Preface to Second Edition Preface to First Edition Introduction: Derivatives and Risk Management Interest Rates Stocks Forwards and Futures Options Arbitrage and Trading Financial Engineering and Swaps Forwards and Futures: Forwards and Futures Markets Futures Trading Futures Regulations The Cost-of-Carry Model The Extended Cost-of-Carry Model Futures Hedging Options: Options Markets and Trading Option Trading Strategies Option Relations Single-Period Binomial Model Multiperiod Binomial Model The Black–Scholes–Merton Model Using the Black–Scholes–Merton Model Interest Rate Derivatives: Yields and Forward Rates Interest Rate Swaps Single-Period Binomial Health–Jarrow–Morton Model Multiperiod Binomial HJM Model The Health–Jarrow–Morton Libor Model Risk Management Models Appendix A Mathematics and Statistics Glossary References Notation Additional Sources and Websites Books on Derivatives and Risk Management Name-Index Subject-Index Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students of economics, business, arts, science and engineering, and MBAs who would work in the finance industry. Robert A Jarrow is the Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Professor of Investment Management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. He is among the most distinguished finance scholars of his generation. Jarrow has done research in nearly all areas of derivatives pricing. He is the co-developer of two widely used pricing models in finance, the Heath–Jarrow–Morton (HJM) model for pricing interest-rate derivatives and the reduced form model for pricing securities with credit risk. He is the author of more than 200 academic publications, seven books including Option Pricing (with Andrew Rudd, 1983), Modelling Fixed Income Securities and Interest Rate Options (1996), and Derivative Securities (with Stuart Turnbull, 2000), and several edited volumes.Arkadev Chatterjea is a Visiting Professor of Finance, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington. He is also a Research Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill and a Visiting Fellow at CHERI, Cornell University. He did his PhD at Cornell, where he was a student of Jarrow. Earlier, he was a Professor of Finance at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. A winner of research and teaching awards in the USA, Chatterjea has taught derivatives at the above universities and at other institutions including CU Boulder, the Helsinki School, Hong Kong UST, and IIM Ahmedabad. 'The text is pleasantly different from others in the market, especially the clarity of the explanations provided for the concepts involved. The teaching slides provided are the best I have encountered to-date.' - Dr Nagaratnam JeyasreedharanUniversity of Tasmania, Australia 'I have read the whole book and I find it excellent. It's a great blend of theory and the 'institutional' aspects of derivatives trading.' - Professor Rafael de SantiagoIESE Business School, Spain 'This book is a great resource for a rigorous introduction to derivatives, both pricing and markets. Thanks to an elaborate set of detailed examples, references to relevant case studies, a full set of worked solutions to problem sets and slides, using this book means reduced prep time without sacrificing the students' learning experience.' - Dr Thijs van der HeijdenUniversity of Melbourne,...