Praise for "The Volatility Surface": 'I'm thrilled by the appearance of Jim Gatheral's new book "The Volatility Surface". The literature on stochastic volatility is vast, but difficult to penetrate and use. Gatheral's book, by contrast, is accessible and practical. It successfully charts a middle ground between specific examples and general models ...
"Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance, Second Edition" is an accessible introduction to the classical side of quantitative finance specifically for university students. Adapted from the comprehensive, even epic works "Derivatives" and "Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, Second Edition", it includes carefully selected chapters to give ...
The third edition of Options is a comprehensive look at the most simple to the more complex use and structure of options. Presented in a non-mathematical format, the reader will be able to understand how options are priced, how they are traded and what their payoffs might be. Although there is a significant discussion of American options, there is ...
This book considers the impact of incomplete information and heterogeneous beliefs on investor's optimal portfolio and consumption behavior and equilibrium asset prices. After a brief review of the existing incomplete information literature, the effect of incomplete information on investors' exptected utility, risky asset prices, and interest ...
THE AUTHOR: Dr. Crack studied PhD-level option pricing at MIT and Harvard Business School, taught undergraduate and MBA option pricing at Indiana University (winning many teaching awards), was an independent consultant to the New York Stock Exchange, worked as an asset management practitioner in London, and has traded options for over ten years. ...
This book presents a major innovation in the interest rate space. It explains a financially motivated extension of the LIBOR Market model which accurately reproduces the prices for plain vanilla hedging instruments (swaptions and caplets) of all strikes and maturities produced by the SABR model. The authors show how to accurately recover the whole ...
Since around the turn of the millennium there has been a general acceptance that one of the more practical improvements one may make in the light of the shortfalls of the classical Black-Scholes model is to replace the underlying source of randomness, a Brownian motion, by a Levy process. Working with Levy processes allows one to capture desirable ...
In order to operate their lending business profitably, banks must know all the costs involved in granting loans. In particular, all the expenses they incur in covering losses must be included. Provided loan risks can be calculated, it is possible in each case to charge a price that is appropriately adjusted for risk, thus making it possible to ...
This book provides an overview on the current state-of-the-art research on non-linear option pricing. Non-linear models are becoming more and more important since they take into account many effects that are not included in the linear model. However, in practice (i.e. in banks) linear models are still used, giving rise to large errors in computing ...
"Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance, Second Edition" provides a thoroughly updated look at derivatives and financial engineering, published in three volumes with additional CD ROM. Volume 1: "Mathematical and Financial Foundations; Basic Theory of Derivatives; Risk and Return". The reader is introduced to the fundamental mathematical tools and ...
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Dynamic Hedging: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options
