Financial Derivatives Modeling [Paperback]

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the modeling of financial derivatives, covering all major asset classes (equities, commodities, interest rates and foreign exchange) and stretching from Black and Scholes' lognormal modeling to current-day research on skew and smile models. The intended reader has a solid mathematical background and is a graduate/final-year undergraduate student specializing in Mathematical Finance, or works at a financial institution such as an investment bank or a hedge fund.

Covering all major asset classes from equities to foreign exhange, this comprehensive introduction to the modeling of financial derivatives takes readers from Black and Scholes lognormal modeling to todays research on skew and smile models.

Derivatives Pricing Basics: Pricing by Replication.- Static Replication.- Dynamic Replication.- Derivatives Modeling in Practice.- Skew and Smile Techniques: Continuous Stochastic Processes.- Local Volatility Models.- Stochastic Volatility Models.- L?vy Models.- Exotic Derivatives: Path-Dependent Derivatives.- High-Dimensional Derivatives.- Asset Class Specific Modeling: - Equities.- Commodities.- Interest Rates.- Foreign Exchange.- Mathematical Preliminaries.This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the modeling of financial derivatives, covering all major asset classes (equities, commodities, interest rates and foreign exchange) and stretching from Black and Scholes' lognormal modeling to current-day research on skew and smile models. The intended reader has a solid mathematical background and is a graduate/final-year undergraduate student specializing in Mathematical Finance, or works at a financial institution such as an investment bank or a hedge fund.

Comprehensive introduction to financial derivatives modeling for graduate students and professionals

Applies derivatives pricing methods to all major asset classes?

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