Derivatives : markets, valuation, and risk management /

Robert Whaley has more than twenty-five years of experience in the world of finance, and with this book he shares his hard-won knowledge in the field of derivatives with you. Divided into ten information-packed parts, Derivatives shows you how this financial tool can be used in practice to create ri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whaley, Robert E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, ©2006.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Derivative Markets. Derivative Contracts and Markets
  • Fundamentals of Valuation. Assumptions and Interest Rate Mechanics
  • Relation between Return and Risk
  • Forwards/Futures/Swap Valuation. No-Arbitrage Price Relations: Forwards, Futures, Swaps
  • Risk Management Strategies: Futures
  • Option Valuation. No-Arbitrage Price Relations: Options
  • Valuing Standard Options Analytically
  • Valuing Nonstandard Options Analytically
  • Valuing Options Numerically
  • Risk Management Strategies: Options
  • Stock Derivatives. Stock Products
  • Corporate Securities
  • Compensation Agreements
  • Stock Index Derivatives. Stock Index Products: Futures and Options
  • Stock Index Products: Strategy Based
  • Currency Derivatives. Currency Products
  • Interest Rate Derivatives. Interest Rate Products: Futures and Options
  • Interest Rate Products: Swaps
  • Credit Products
  • Valuing Interest Rate Products Numerically
  • Commodity Derivatives. Commodity Products
  • Lessons Learned. Key Lessons
  • Elementary Statistics
  • Regression Analysis
  • Statistical Tables
  • Glossary of Derivatives-Related Terms.