Accessible and intuitive, Derivative Securities offers advanced undergraduates, MBA students, and executives the theory and practical tools needed to price and hedge derivatives in the professional marketplace. Written by two of the foremost derivative pricing experts in the world, this text makes the theory and practice of pricing and hedging derivative securities accessible without watering down the material. Presentation is complete yet avoids advanced mathematics. Equal coverage is given to options pricing theory and futures pricing theory, and cutting-edge derivatives research is incorporated throughout. Derivatives pricing software is bound with each text.

Focusing on recent developments in the field, American-Style Derivatives provides an extensive treatment of option pricing with emphasis on the valuation of American options on dividend-paying assets. This book reviews valuation principles for European contingent claims and extends the analysis to American contingent claims. It presents basic valuation principles for American options including barrier, capped, and multi-asset options. It also reviews numerical methods for option pricing and compares their relative performance. Ideal for students and researchers in quantitative finance, this material is accessible to those with a background in stochastic processes or derivative securities.

In The Social Life of Financial Derivatives Edward LiPuma theorizes the profound social dimensions of derivatives markets and the processes, rituals, and belief systems that drive them. In response to the 2008 financial crisis and drawing on his experience trading derivatives, LiPuma outlines how they function as complex devices that organize speculative capital as well as the ways derivative-driven capitalism not only produces the conditions for its own existence, but also penetrates the fabric of everyday life. Framing finance as a form of social life and highlighting the intrinsically social character of financial derivatives, LiPuma deepens our understanding of derivatives so that we may someday use them to serve the public well-being.

Robert Whaley has more than twenty-five years of experience in the world of finance, and with this book he shares his hard-won knowledge in the field of derivatives with you. Divided into ten information-packed parts, Derivatives shows you how this financial tool can be used in practice to create risk management, valuation, and investment solutions that are appropriate for a variety of market situations.

Dieses Buch ist die sorgfältig umgeschriebene und redigierte Bearbeitung von Reden und Aufsätzen des Nobelpreisträgers Merton Miller, die seine persönlichen Einschätzungen des Marktes widerspiegeln. Gut verständlich wird die Problematik der Derivative sowie wichtige Themen der modernen Finanzwelt - jedoch ohne mathematische Formeln - erörtert. (10/97)

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Frank Fabozzi and Bruce Collins fully outline the ins and outs of the derivatives process for equity investors in Derivatives and Equity Portfolio Management. A significant investment tool of growing interest, derivatives offer investors options for managing risk in a diversified portfolio. This in-depth guide integrates the derivatives process into portfolio management and is replete with applications from authors with extensive Wall Street experience. Whether you're and individual investor or portfolio manager seeking to improve investment returns, you'll quickly learn about listed equity contracts, using listed options in equity portfolio management, risk management with stock index futures, OTC equity derivatives-and profit from your new found knowledge.