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Financial Derivatives:

Pricing and Risk Management (Google eBook)
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Robert Kolb, James A. Overdahl
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John Wiley & Sons, Oct 15, 2009 - Business & Economics - 528 pages

Essential insights on the various aspects of financial derivatives

If you want to understand derivatives without getting bogged down by the mathematics surrounding their pricing and valuation, Financial Derivatives is the book for you. Through in-depth insights gleaned from years of financial experience, Robert Kolb and James Overdahl clearly explain what derivatives are and how you can prudently use them within the context of your underlying business activities.

Financial Derivatives introduces you to the wide range of markets for financial derivatives. This invaluable guide offers a broad overview of the different types of derivatives-futures, options, swaps, and structured products-while focusing on the principles that determine market prices. This comprehensive resource also provides a thorough introduction to financial derivatives and their importance to risk management in a corporate setting. Filled with helpful tables and charts, Financial Derivatives offers a wealth of knowledge on futures, options, swaps, financial engineering, and structured products.

  • Discusses what derivatives are and how you can prudently implement them within the context of your underlying business activities
  • Provides thorough coverage of financial derivatives and their role in risk management
  • Explores financial derivatives without getting bogged down by the mathematics surrounding their pricing and valuation

This informative guide will help you unlock the incredible potential of financial derivatives.

  

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Contents

Pricing and Risk Management Part I Overview of Financial Derivatives
1
Pricing and Risk Management Part II Types of Financial Derivatives
73
Pricing and Risk Management Part III The Structure of Derivatives Markets and Institutions
231
Pricing and Risk Management Part IV Pricing of Derivatives Essential Concepts
333
Pricing and Risk Management Part V Advanced Pricing Techniques
423
Pricing and Risk Management Part VI Using Financial Derivatives
501
Pricing and Risk Management Index
591
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About the author (2009)

Robert W. Kolb is the Frank W. Considine Chair of Applied Ethics and Professor of Finance at Loyola University Chicago. Before this, he was the assistant dean, Business and Society, and director, Center for Business and Society, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and department chairman at the University of Miami. Kolb has authored over twenty books on finance, derivatives, and futures, as well as numerous articles in leading finance journals.

James A. Overdahl, a specialist in financial derivatives, is the Chief Economist of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. He had previously served as chief economist of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and has nearly two decades of experience in senior positions at various federal financial regulatory agencies. He has taught economics and finance at the University of Texas at Dallas, Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University. Overdahl earned his PhD in economics from Iowa State University.

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