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For courses in business, economics, and financial engineering and mathematics. The definitive guide to derivatives markets, updated with contemporary examples and discussions
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780134472089
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Pearson Education
Publication Date: 01-20-2017
Pages: 896
Product Dimensions: 8.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.30(d)
About the Author
John Hull is the Maple Financial Professor of Derivatives and Risk Management at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is an internationally recognized authority on derivatives and risk management with many publications in this area. His work has an applied focus. In 1999, he was voted Financial Engineer of the Year by the International Association of Financial Engineers. He has acted as consultant to many North American, Japanese, and European financial institutions. He has won many teaching awards, including University of Toronto’s prestigious Northrop Frye award.
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PREFACE: This book is appropriate for graduate and advanced undergraduate elective courses in business, economics, and financial engineering. It is also suitable for practitioners who want to acquire a working knowledge of how derivatives can be analyzed. One of the key decisions that must be made by an author who is writing in the area of derivatives concerns the use of mathematics. If the level of mathematical sophistication is too high, the material is likely to be inaccessible to many students and practitioners. If it is too low, some important issues will inevitably be treated in a rather superficial way. In this book, great care has been taken in the use of mathematics. Nonessential mathematical material has been either eliminated or included in end-of-chapter appendices. Concepts that are likely to be new to many readers have been explained carefully, and many numerical examples have been included. This book provides a unifying approach to the valuation of all derivatives - not just futures and options. The book assumes that the reader has taken an introductory course in finance and an introductory course in probability and statistics. No prior knowledge of options, futures contracts, swaps, and so on is assumed. It is not therefore necessary for students to take an elective course in investments prior to taking a course based on this book. Read an Excerpt
Preface
Changes in This Edition
This edition contains more material than the third edition. The material in the third edition has been updated and its presentation has been improved in a number of places. The major changes include:
1. A new chapter (chapter 14) has beenincluded on value at risk.
2. A new chapter (chapter 15) has been included on estimating volatilities and correlations. GARCH models are covered in much more detail than in the third edition.
3. Chapter 19 contains much new material and explains the role played by martingales and measures in the valuation of derivatives.
4. Chapter 20 on the standard market models for valuing interest rate derivatives has been revised. It now uses the material in chapter 19 to provide a more complete discussion of the models for valuing bond options, caps, and swap options.
5. There are now two chapters on equilibrium and no-arbitrage models of the term structure (chapters 21 and 22). Chapter 21 covers equilibrium models and one-factor no-arbitrage models of the short rate. Chapter 22 covers two-factor models of the short rate, the HIM model, and the LIBOR market (BGM) model.
6. Chapter 4 on Interest Rates and Duration has been rewritten to make the material clearer and more relevant.
7. Chapter 23 on Credit Risk has been rewritten to reflect developments in this important area.
8. More material has been added on volatility smiles and volatility skews (chapter 17).
9. The sequencing of the material has been changed slightly. Volatility smiles and alternatives to Black-Scholes now appear before the chapter on exotic options, which in turn appears before the material on interest rate derivatives.
10. The notation has been improved and simplified. So and Fo are used to denote the asset price and the forward price today (that is, at time zero) and the cumbersome "T - t" no longer appears in most parts of the book.
11. A glossary of terms has been included.
12. Many new problems and questions have been added.
Software
New Excel-based software, DerivaGem, is included with the book. This software is a big improvement over the software included with previous editions. It has been carefully designed to complement the material in the text. Users can calculate options prices, imply volatilities, and calculate Greek letters for European options, American options, exotic options, and interest rate derivatives. Interest rate derivatives can be valued either using Black's model or a no-arbitrage model. The software can be used to display binomial trees (see for example Figure 16.3 and Figure 21.11) and provide many different charts showing the impact of different variables on either option prices or the Greek letters.
The software is described more fully at the end of the book. Updates to the software can be downloaded from my Web site (...
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List of Technical Notes Preface 1. Introduction 2. Futures markets and central counterparties 3. Hedging strategies using futures 4. Interest rates 5. Determination of forward and futures prices 6. Interest rate futures 7. Swaps 8. Securitization and the credit crisis of 2007 9. XVAs 10. Mechanics of options markets 11. Properties of stock options 12. Trading strategies involving options 13. Binomial trees 14. Wiener processes and Itô’s lemma 15. The Black—Scholes—Merton model 16. Employee stock options 17. Options on stock indices and currencies 18. Futures options and Black’s model 19. The Greek letters 20. Volatility smiles 21. Basic numerical procedures 22. Value at risk and expected shortfall 23. Estimating volatilities and correlations 24. Credit risk 25. Credit derivatives 26. Exotic options 27. More on models and numerical procedures 28. Martingales and measures 29. Interest rate derivatives: The standard market models 30. Convexity, timing, and quanto adjustments 31. Equilibrium models of the short rate 32. No-arbitrage models of the short rate 33. HJM, LMM, and multiple zero curves 34. Swaps Revisited 35. Energy and commodity derivatives 36. Real options 37. Derivatives mishaps and what we can learn from them Glossary of terms DerivaGem software Major exchanges trading futures and options Tables for N (x) Author index Subject indexTable of Contents
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