Takeaki Kariya - Böcker

This text aims to provide practical models and methods for the quantitative analysis of financial asset prices, construction of various portfolios, and computer-assisted trading systems. In particular, it should be helpful reading for "Quants" (quantitatively-inclined analysts) in financial industries, financial engineers in investment banks; securities companies, derivative-trading companies, and software houses who are developing portfolio trading systems; graduate students and specialists in the areas of finance, business, hardbound economics, statistics, financial engineering; investors who are interested in Japanese financial markets. Throughout the book the emphasis is placed on the originality and usefulness of models and methods for the construction of portfolios and investment decision making, and examples are provided to demonstrate, analysis, models for Japanese financial markets.

The theory of asset pricing has grown markedly more sophisticated since the early 1980s, with the application of powerful mathematical tools such as probability theory, stochastic processes and numerical analysis. The main goal of this text is to provide a systematic exposition, with practical applications, of the no-arbitrage theory for asset pricing in financial engineering in the framework of a discrete time approach. Useful as a textbook on financial asset pricing, the book should also appeal to practitioners in financial and related industries, as well as to students in MBA or graduate/advanced undergraduate programs in finance, financial engineering, financial econometrics, or financial information science.