1st Edition

Quantitative Modeling of Derivative Securities From Theory To Practice

By Marco Avellaneda, Peter Laurence Copyright 1999
334 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

334 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

336 Pages
by Routledge

Quantitative Modeling of Derivative Securities demonstrates how to take the basic ideas of arbitrage theory and apply them - in a very concrete way - to the design and analysis of financial products. Based primarily (but not exclusively) on the analysis of derivatives, the book emphasizes relative-value and hedging ideas applied to different financial instruments. Using a "financial engineering... Read more
Arbitrage Pricing Theory: The One-Period Model. Binomial Option Pricing Model. Analysis of the Black-Scholes Formula. Refinements of the Binomial Model. American-Style Options and Time-Optionality. Trinomial Trees and Finite-Difference Schemes. Brownian Motion and Ito Calculus. An Introduction to Exotic Options. Ito Processes, Continuous-Time Martingales, and Girsanov's Theorem. Continuous-Time Finance: An Introduction. Valuation of Derivative Securities. Fixed-Income Securities and the Term-Structure of Interest Rates.. The Heath-Jarrow-Morton Theorem and Multidimensional Term-Structure Model. Exponential-Affine Models. Interest-Rate Options. Appendix: The Intertemporal Discrete Model.

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Marco Avellaneda, Peter Laurence