Download or read book Financial Derivatives written by Jamil Baz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-12 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a complete, succinct account of the principles of financial derivatives pricing. The first chapter provides readers with an intuitive exposition of basic random calculus. Concepts such as volatility and time, random walks, geometric Brownian motion, and Ito's lemma are discussed heuristically. The second chapter develops generic pricing techniques for assets and derivatives, determining the notion of a stochastic discount factor or pricing kernel, and then uses this concept to price conventional and exotic derivatives. The third chapter applies the pricing concepts to the special case of interest rate markets, namely, bonds and swaps, and discusses factor models and term structure consistent models. The fourth chapter deals with a variety of mathematical topics that underlie derivatives pricing and portfolio allocation decisions such as mean-reverting processes and jump processes and discusses related tools of stochastic calculus such as Kolmogorov equations, martingale techniques, stochastic control, and partial differential equations.

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Download or read book Financial Econometrics Mathematics and Statistics written by Cheng-Few Lee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rigorous textbook introduces graduate students to the principles of econometrics and statistics with a focus on methods and applications in financial research. Financial Econometrics, Mathematics, and Statistics introduces tools and methods important for both finance and accounting that assist with asset pricing, corporate finance, options and futures, and conducting financial accounting research. Divided into four parts, the text begins with topics related to regression and financial econometrics. Subsequent sections describe time-series analyses; the role of binomial, multi-nomial, and log normal distributions in option pricing models; and the application of statistics analyses to risk management. The real-world applications and problems offer students a unique insight into such topics as heteroskedasticity, regression, simultaneous equation models, panel data analysis, time series analysis, and generalized method of moments. Written by leading academics in the quantitative finance field, allows readers to implement the principles behind financial econometrics and statistics through real-world applications and problem sets. This textbook will appeal to a less-served market of upper-undergraduate and graduate students in finance, economics, and statistics. ​

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Download or read book American Type Options written by Dmitrii S. Silvestrov and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book gives a systematical presentation of stochastic approximation methods for models of American-type options with general pay-off functions for discrete time Markov price processes. Advanced methods combining backward recurrence algorithms for computing of option rewards and general results on convergence of stochastic space skeleton and tree approximations for option rewards are applied to a variety of models of multivariate modulated Markov price processes. The principal novelty of presented results is based on consideration of multivariate modulated Markov price processes and general pay-off functions, which can depend not only on price but also an additional stochastic modulating index component, and use of minimal conditions of smoothness for transition probabilities and pay-off functions, compactness conditions for log-price processes and rate of growth conditions for pay-off functions. The book also contains an extended bibliography of works in the area. This book is the first volume of the comprehensive two volumes monograph. The second volume will present results on structural studies of optimal stopping domains, Monte Carlo based approximation reward algorithms, and convergence of American-type options for autoregressive and continuous time models, as well as results of the corresponding experimental studies.

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Download or read book Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management written by Cheng-Few Lee and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2001-09-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research annual publication intends to bring together investment analysis and portfolio theory and their implementation to portfolio management. It seeks theoretical and empirical research manuscripts with high quality in the area of investment and portfolio analysis. The contents will consist of original research on: The principles of portfolio management of equities and fixed-income securities. The evaluation of portfolios (or mutual funds) of common stocks, bonds, international assets, and options. The dynamic process of portfolio management. Strategies of international investments and portfolio management. The applications of useful and important analytical techniques such as mathematics, econometrics, statistics, and computers in the field of investment and portfolio management. Theoretical research related to options and futures. In addition, it also contains articles that present and examine new and important accounting, financial, and economic data for managing and evaluating portfolios of risky assets.

Download or read book A Course in Derivative Securities written by Kerry Back and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deals with pricing and hedging financial derivatives.... Computational methods are introduced and the text contains the Excel VBA routines corresponding to the formulas and procedures described in the book. This is valuable since computer simulation can help readers understand the theory....The book...succeeds in presenting intuitively advanced derivative modelling... it provides a useful bridge between introductory books and the more advanced literature." --MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS

Download or read book Derivatives Risk Management Value written by Mondher Bellalah and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19.1. Numerical analysis and simulation techniques : an introduction to finite difference methods. 19.2. Application to European options on non-dividend paying stocks. 19.3. Valuation of American options with a composite volatility. 19.4. Simulation methods : Monte-Carlo method. ch. 20. Numerical methods and partial differential equations for European and American derivatives with complete and incomplete information. 20.1. Valuation of American calls on dividend-paying stocks. 20.2. American puts on dividend-paying stocks. 20.3. Numerical procedures in the presence of information costs : applications. 20.4. Convertible bonds. 20.5. Two-factor interest rate models and bond pricing within information uncertainty. 20.6. CBs pricing within information uncertainty -- pt. VIII. Exotic derivatives. ch. 21. Risk management : exotics and second-generation options. 21.1. Exchange options. 21.2. Forward-start options. 21.3. Pay-later options. 21.4. Simple chooser options. 21.5. Complex choosers. 21.6. Compound options. 21.7. Options on the maximum (minimum). 21.8. Extendible options. 21.9. Equity-linked foreign exchange options and quantos. 21.10. Binary barrier options. 21.11. Lookback options. ch. 22. Value at risk, credit risk, and credit derivatives. 22.1. VaR and riskmetrics : definitions and basic concepts. 22.2. Statistical and probability foundation of VaR. 22.3. A more advanced approach to VaR. 22.4. Credit valuation and the creditmetrics approach. 22.5. Default and credit-quality migration in the creditmetrics approach. 22.6. Credit-quality correlations. 22.7. Portfolio management of default risk in the Kealhofer, McQuown and Vasicek (KMV) approach. 22.8. Credit derivatives : definitions and main concepts. 22.9. The rating agencies models and the proprietary models.

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Download or read book Martingale Methods in Financial Modelling written by Marek Musiela and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and self-contained treatment of the theory and practice of option pricing. The role of martingale methods in financial modeling is exposed. The emphasis is on using arbitrage-free models already accepted by the market as well as on building the new ones. Standard calls and puts together with numerous examples of exotic options such as barriers and quantos, for example on stocks, indices, currencies and interest rates are analysed. The importance of choosing a convenient numeraire in price calculations is explained. Mathematical and financial language is used so as to bring mathematicians closer to practical problems of finance and presenting to the industry useful maths tools.

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