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Practical Readings in Financial Derivatives

Rob Quail (Author)

9781577180845, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 1997

366 pages
24.6 x 17.5 x 2 cm, 0.652 kg

Two central themes govern the content--the pricing of financial derivatives and their practical application in risk management.

Part I: Instruments and Pricing:.

Futures and Forwards:.

1. Determining the Relevant Fair Value(s) of S & P 500 Futures: A Case Study Approach: Ira G. Kawaller.

2. Cash-and-Carry Trading and the Pricing of Treasury Bill Futures: Ira G. Kawaller and Timothy W. Koch.

Options:.

3. How to Use the Holes in Black and Scholes: Fischer Black.

Swaps:.

4. Beyond Plain Vanilla: A Taxonomy of Swaps: Peter A. Abken.

5. The Pricing of Interest Rate Swaps: John F. Marshall and Kenneth R. Kapner. 6. Over-the-Counter Interest Rate Derivatives: Anatoli Kuprianov.

Exotics:.

7. Path-Dependent Options: William C. Hunter and David W. Stowe.

8. Path-Dependent Options: Valuation and Applications: William C. Hunter and David W. Stowe.

9. An Introduction to Special-Purpose Derivatives: Path-Dependent Options: Gary Gastineau.

Part II: Risk Management Applications:.

Overview:.

10. Managing Financial Risk: Clifford W. Smith, Jr. Charles W. Smithson, and D. Sykes Wilford.

Debt Markets:.

11. Improving Hedging Performance Using Interest Rate Futures: Robert W. Kolb and Raymond Chiang.

12. Immunizing Bond Portfolios with Interest Rate Futures: Robert W. Kolb and Gerald D. Gay.

13. Interest Rate Swaps versus Eurodollar Strips: Ira G. Kawaller.

Equity Markets:.

14. The Mechanics of Portfolio Insurance: Thomas J. O'Brien.

15. Alternative Paths to Portfolio Insurance: Mark Rubinstein.

16. The October Crash: Some Evidence on the Cascade Theory: G. J. Santoni.

17. Portfolio Insurance and the Market Crash: Mark Rubinstein.

Over-the-Counter Markets:.

18. The Role of Interest Rate Swaps in Corporate Finance: Anatoli Kuprianov.

19. A Tale of Two Bond Swaps: Andrew Kalotay and Bruce Tuckman.

20. Over-the-Counter Financial Derivatives: Risky Business?: Peter A. Abken.

Preface.

Subject Areas: Politics & government [JP]

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