Written by Nick Bingham, Chairman and Professor of Statistics at Birkbeck College, and Rüdiger Kiesel, an "up-and-coming" academic, Risk Neutrality will benefit the Springer Finance Series in many ways. It provides a valuable introduction to Mathematical Finance for Graduate Students, and also comprehensive coverage of Financial subjects which should also stimulate practitioners of the subject. Based on a graduate course given to practitioners of Finance, the book identifies a clear gap in the market of Mathematical Finance. The authors approach is simple and designed to accommodate a wide audience. Springer Finance is a new programme of books aimed at students, academics and practitioners working on increasingly technical approaches to the analysis of financial markets. It aims to cover a
Since its introduction in the early 1980s, the risk-neutral valuation principle has proved to be an important tool in the pricing and hedging of financial derivatives. Following the success of the first edition of ‘Risk-Neutral Valuation’, the authors have thoroughly revised the entire book, taking into account recent developments in the field, and changes in their own thinking and teaching. In particular, the chapters on Incomplete Markets and Interest Rate Theory have been updated and extended, there is a new chapter on the important and growing area of Credit Risk and, in recognition of the increasing popularity of Lévy finance, there is considerable new material on: ·Infinite divisibility and Lévy processes ·Lévy-based models in incomplete markets Further material such as exercises, solutions to exercises and lecture slides are also available via the web to provide additional support for lecturers.
Since its introduction in the early 1980s, the risk-neutral valuation principle has proved to be an important tool in the pricing and hedging of financial derivatives. Following the success of the first edition of ‘Risk-Neutral Valuation’, the authors have thoroughly revised the entire book, taking into account recent developments in the field, and changes in their own thinking and teaching. In particular, the chapters on Incomplete Markets and Interest Rate Theory have been updated and extended, there is a new chapter on the important and growing area of Credit Risk and, in recognition of the increasing popularity of Lévy finance, there is considerable new material on: ·Infinite divisibility and Lévy processes ·Lévy-based models in incomplete markets Further material such as exercises, solutions to exercises and lecture slides are also available via the web to provide additional support for lecturers.
Since its introduction in the early 1980s, the risk-neutral valuation principle has proved to be an important tool in the pricing and hedging of financial derivatives. Following the success of the first edition of ‘Risk-Neutral Valuation’, the authors have thoroughly revised the entire book, taking into account recent developments in the field, and changes in their own thinking and teaching. In particular, the chapters on Incomplete Markets and Interest Rate Theory have been updated and extended, there is a new chapter on the important and growing area of Credit Risk and, in recognition of the increasing popularity of Lévy finance, there is considerable new material on: ·Infinite divisibility and Lévy processes ·Lévy-based models in incomplete markets Further material such as exercises, solutions to exercises and lecture slides are also available via the web to provide additional support for lecturers.