An Introduction to Derivative Securities, Financial Markets, and Risk Management

Business & Finance, Finance & Investing, Banks & Banking, Finance

• Author: Robert Jarrow, Arkadev Chatterjea
• ISBN: 9781944659578
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication: May 7, 2019
• Imprint: WSPC (US)
• Language: English

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:

• 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 HJM Model
  • Multiperiod Binomial HJM Model
  • The HJM Libor Model
  • Risk Management Models

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students of economics, business, arts, science and engineering, and MBAs who would work in the finance industry.
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