Financial derivatives pricing and risk management - Kolb, Robert W. (Wiley, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Derivative instruments : forwards, futures, options, swaps, and structured products / G.D. Koppenhaver -- The derivatives marketplace : exchanges and the over-the-counter market / Sharon Brown-Hruska -- Speculation and hedging / Greg Kuserk -- The social functions of financial derivatives / Christopher L. Culp -- Agricultural and metallurgical derivatives : pricing / Joan C. Junkus -- Agricultural and metallurgical derivatives : speculation and hedging / Joan C. Junkus -- Equity derivatives / Jeffrey H. Harris and L. Mick Swartz -- Foreign exchange derivatives / Robert W. Kolb -- Energy derivatives / Craig Pirrong -- Interest rate derivatives / Ian Lang -- Exotic options / Robert W. Kolb -- Event derivatives / Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz -- Credit default swaps / Steven Todd -- Structured credit products / Steven Todd -- Executive stock options / Robert W. Kolb -- Emerging derivative instruments / Steve Swidler --
- The development and current state of derivatives markets / Michael A. Penick -- Derivatives markets intermediaries : brokers, dealers, pools, and funds / James L. Carley -- Clearing and settlement / James T. Moser and David Reiffen -- Counterparty credit risk / James Overdahl -- The regulation of U.S. commodity futures and options / Walter L. Lukken -- Accounting for financial derivatives / Ira G. Kawaller -- Derivative scandals and disasters / John E. Marthinsen -- No-arbitrage pricing / Robert A. Strong -- The pricing of forward and futures contracts / David Dubofsky -- The Black-Scholes option pricing model / A.G. Malliaris -- The Black-Scholes legacy : closed-form option pricing models / António Câmara -- The pricing and valuation of swaps / Gerald Gay and Anand Venkateswaran -- Monte Carlo techniques in pricing and using derivatives / Cara M. Marshall -- Valuing derivatives using finite difference methods / Craig Pirrong --
- Stochastic processes and models / George Chalamandaris and A.G. Malliaris -- Measuring and hedging option price sensitivities / R. Brian Balyeat -- Option strategies / Stewart Mayhew -- The use of derivatives in financial engineering : hedge fund applications / John F. Marshall and Cara M. Marshall -- Hedge funds and financial derivatives / Tom Nohel -- Real options and applications in corporate finance / Betty Simkins and Kris Kemper -- Using derivatives to manage interest rate risk / Steven L. Byers
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