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- Cover
- Contents
- Business Snapshots
- Technical Notes
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- 1.1 Exchange-traded markets
- Electronic Markets
- 1.2 Over-the-counter markets
- Market Size
- 1.3 Forward contracts
- Payoffs from Forward Contracts
- Forward Prices and Spot Prices
- 1.4 Futures contracts
- 1.5 Options
- 1.6 Types of traders
- 1.7 Hedgers
- Hedging Using Forward Contracts
- Hedging Using Options
- A Comparison
- 1.8 Speculators
- Speculation Using Futures
- Speculation Using Options
- A Comparison
- 1.9 Arbitrageurs
- 1.10 Dangers
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 2: Mechanics of futures markets
- 2.1 Background
- Closing Out Positions
- 2.2 Specification of a futures contract
- The Asset
- The Contract Size
- Delivery Arrangements
- Delivery Months
- Price Quotes
- Price Limits and Position Limits
- 2.3 Convergence of futures price to spot price
- 2.4 The operation of margin accounts
- Daily Settlement
- Further Details
- The Clearing House and Its Members
- Credit Risk
- 2.5 OTC markets
- Central Counterparties
- Bilateral Clearing
- Futures Trades vs. OTC Trades
- 2.6 Market quotes
- Prices
- Settlement Price
- Trading Volume and Open Interest
- Patterns of Futures
- 2.7 Delivery
- Cash Settlement
- 2.8 Types of traders and types of orders
- Orders
- 2.9 Regulation
- Trading Irregularities
- 2.10 Accounting and tax
- Accounting
- Tax
- 2.11 Forward vs. futures contracts
- Profits from Forward and Futures Contracts
- Foreign Exchange Quotes
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 3: Hedging strategies using futures
- 3.1 Basic principles
- Short Hedges
- Long Hedges
- 3.2 Arguments for and against hedging
- Hedging and Shareholders
- Hedging and Competitors
- Hedging Can Lead to a Worse Outcome
- 3.3 Basis risk
- The Basis
- Choice of Contract
- 3.4 Cross hedging
- Calculating the Minimum Variance Hedge Ratio
- Optimal Number of Contracts
- Tailing the Hedge
- 3.5 Stock index futures
- Stock Indices
- Hedging an Equity Portfolio
- Reasons for Hedging an Equity Portfolio
- Changing the Beta of a Portfolio
- Locking in the Benefits of Stock Picking
- 3.6 Stack and roll
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Appendix: Capital asset pricing model
- Chapter 4: Interest rates
- 4.1 Types of rates
- Treasury Rates
- LIBOR
- The Fed Funds Rate
- Repo Rates
- The "Risk-Free" Rate
- 4.2 Measuring interest rates
- Continuous Compounding
- 4.3 Zero rates
- 4.4 Bond pricing
- Bond Yield
- Par Yield
- 4.5 Determining Treasury zero rates
- 4.6 Forward rates
- 4.7 Forward rate agreements
- Valuation
- 4.8 Duration
- Modified Duration
- Bond Portfolios
- 4.9 Convexity
- 4.10 Theories of the term structure of interest rates
- The Management of Net Interest Income
- Liquidity
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 5: Determination of forward and futures prices
- 5.1 Investment assets vs. consumption assets
- 5.2 Short selling
- 5.3 Assumptions and notation
- 5.4 Forward price for an investment asset
- A Generalization
- What If Short Sales are not possible?
- 5.5 Known Income
- A Generalization
- 5.6 Known yield
- 5.7 Valuing forward contracts
- 5.8 Are forward prices and futures prices equal?
- 5.9 Futures prices of stock indices
- Index Arbitrage
- 5.10 Forward and futures contracts on currencies
- 5.11 Futures on commodities
- Income and Storage Costs
- Consumption Commodities
- Convenience Yields
- 5.12 The cost of carry
- 5.13 Delivery options
- 5.14 Futures prices and expected future spot prices
- Keynes and Hicks
- Risk and Return
- The Risk in a Futures Position
- Normal Backwardation and Contango
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 6: Interest rate futures
- 6.1 Day count and quotation conventions
- Day Counts
- Price Quotations of US Treasury Bills
- Price Quotations of US Treasury Bonds
- 6.2 Treasury bond futures
- Quotes
- Conversion Factors
- Cheapest-to-Deliver Bond
- Determining the Futures Price
- 6.3 Eurodollar futures
- Forward vs. Futures Interest Rates
- Convexity Adjustment
- Using Eurodollar Futures to Extend the LIBOR Zero Curve
- 6.4 Duration-based hedging strategies using futures
- 6.5 Hedging portfolios of assets and liabilities
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 7: Swaps
- 7.1 Mechanics of interest rate swaps
- LIBOR
- Illustration
- Using the Swap to Transform a Liability
- Using the Swap to Transform an Asset
- Role of Financial Intermediary
- Market Makers
- 7.2 Day count issues
- 7.3 Confirmations
- 7.4 The comparative-advantage argument
- Criticism of the Argument
- 7.5 The nature of swap rates
- 7.6 Determining the LIBOR/swap zero rates
- 7.7 Valuation of interest rate swaps
- Valuation in Terms of Bond Prices
- Valuation in Terms of FRAs
- 7.8 Term structure effects
- 7.9 Fixed-for-fixed currency swaps
- Illustration
- Use of a Currency Swap to Transform Liabilities and Assets
- Comparative Advantage
- 7.10 Valuation of fixed-for-fixed currency swaps
- Valuation in Terms of Bond Prices
- Valuation as Portfolio of Forward Contracts
- 7.11 Other currency swaps
- 7.12 Credit risk
- Central Clearing
- Credit Default Swaps
- 7.13 Other types of swaps
- Variations on the Standard Interest Rate Swap
- Diff Swaps
- Equity Swaps
- Options
- Commodity Swaps, Volatility Swaps, and Other Exotic Instruments
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 8: Securitization and the credit crisis of 2007
- 8.1 Securitization
- ABSs
- ABS CDOs
- 8.2 The US housing market
- The Relaxation of Lending Standards
- Subprime Mortgage Securitization
- The Bubble Bursts
- The Losses
- The Credit Crisis
- 8.3 What went wrong?
- Regulatory Arbitrage
- Incentives
- 8.4 The aftermath
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 9: OIS discounting, credit issues, and funding costs
- 9.1 The risk-free rate
- 9.2 The OIS rate
- Determining the OIS Zero Curve
- 9.3 Valuing swaps and FRAs with OIS discounting
- Determining Forward LIBOR Rates with OIS Discounting
- 9.4 OIS vs. LIBOR: Which is correct?
- 9.5 Credit risk: CVA and DVA
- Collateral
- 9.6 Funding costs
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 10: Mechanics of options markets
- 10.1 Types of options
- Call Options
- Put Options
- Early Exercise
- 10.2 Option positions
- 10.3 Underlying assets
- Stock Options
- Foreign Currency Options
- Index Options
- Futures Options
- 10.4 Specification of stock options
- Expiration Dates
- Strike Prices
- Terminology
- FLEX Options
- Other Nonstandard Products
- Dividends and Stock Splits
- Position Limits and Exercise Limits
- 10.5 Trading
- Market Makers
- Offsetting Orders
- 10.6 Commissions
- 10.7 Margin requirements
- Writing Naked Options
- Other Rules
- 10.8 The options clearing corporation
- Exercising an Option
- 10.9 Regulation
- 10.10 Taxation
- Wash Sale Rule
- Constructive Sales
- 10.11 Warrants, employee stock options, and convertibles
- 10.12 Over-the-counter options markets
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 11: Properties of stock options
- 11.1 Factors affecting option prices
- Stock Price and Strike Price
- Time to Expiration
- Volatility
- Risk-Free Interest Rate
- Amount of Future Dividends
- 11.2 Assumptions and notation
- 11.3 Upper and lower bounds for option prices
- Upper Bounds
- Lower Bound for Calls on Non-Dividend-Paying Stocks
- Lower Bound for European Puts on Non-Dividend-Paying Stocks
- 11.4 Put-call parity
- 11.5 Calls on a non-dividend-paying stock
- Bounds
- 11.6 Puts on a non-dividend-paying stock
- Bounds
- 11.7 Effect of dividends
- Lower Bound for Calls and Puts
- Early Exercise
- Put-Call Parity
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 12: Trading strategies involving options
- 12.1 Principal-protected notes
- 12.2 Trading an option and the underlying asset
- 12.3 Spreads
- Bull Spreads
- Bear Spreads
- Box Spreads
- Butterfly Spreads
- Calendar Spreads
- Diagonal Spreads
- 12.4 Combinations
- Straddle
- Strips and Straps
- Strangles
- 12.5 Other payoffs
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 13: Binomial trees
- 13.1 A one-step binomial model and a no-arbitrage argument
- A Generalization
- Irrelevance of the Stock's Expected Return
- 13.2 Risk-neutral valuation
- The One-Step Binomial Example Revisited
- Real World vs. Risk-Neutral World
- 13.3 Two-step binomial trees
- A Generalization
- 13.4 A put example
- 13.5 American options
- 13.6 Delta
- 13.7 Matching volatility with u and d
- Girsanov's Theorem
- 13.8 The binomial tree formulas
- 13.9 Increasing the number of steps
- 13.10 Using DerivaGem
- 13.11 Options on other assets
- Options on Stocks Paying a Continuous Dividend Yield
- Options on Stock Indices
- Options on Currencies
- Options on Futures
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Appendix: Derivation of the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing formula from a binomial tree
- Chapter 14: Wiener processes and Itô's lemma
- 14.1 The Markov property
- 14.2 Continuous-time stochastic processes
- Wiener Process
- Generalized Wiener Process
- Itô Process
- 14.3 The process for a stock price
- Discrete-Time Model
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- 14.4 The parameters
- 14.5 Correlated processes
- 14.6 Itô's Lemma
- Application to Forward Contracts
- 14.7 The lognormal property
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Appendix: Derivation of Itô's lemma
- Chapter 15: The Black-Scholes-Merton model
- 15.1 Lognormal property of stock prices
- 15.2 The distribution of the rate of return
- 15.3 The expected return
- 15.4 Volatility
- Estimating Volatility from Historical Data
- Trading Days vs. Calendar Days
- 15.5 The idea underlying the Black-Scholes-Merton differential equation
- 15.6 Derivation of the Black-Scholes-Merton differential equation
- A Perpetual Derivative
- The Prices of Tradeable Derivatives
- 15.7 Risk-neutral valuation
- Application to Forward Contracts on a Stock
- 15.8 Black-Scholes-Merton pricing formulas
- Understanding N(d1) and N(d2)
- Properties of the Black-Scholes-Merton Formulas
- 15.9 Cumulative normal distribution function
- 15.10 Warrants and employee stock options
- 15.11 Implied volatilities
- The VIX Index
- 15.12 Dividends
- European Options
- American Call Options
- Black's Approximation
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Appendix: Proof of Black-Scholes-Merton formula using risk-neutral valuation
- Chapter 16: Employee stock options
- 16.1 Contractual arrangements
- The Early Exercise Decision
- 16.2 Do options align the interests of shareholders and managers?
- 16.3 Accounting issues
- Alternatives to Stock Options
- 16.4 Valuation
- The "Quick and Dirty" Approach
- Binomial Tree Approach
- The Exercise Multiple Approach
- A Market-Based Approach
- Dilution
- 16.5 Backdating scandals
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 17: Options on stock indices and currencies
- 17.1 Options on stock indices
- Portfolio Insurance
- When the Portfolio's Beta is Not 1.0
- 17.2 Currency options
- Range Forwards
- 17.3 Options on stocks paying known dividend yields
- Lower Bounds for Option Prices
- Put-Call Parity
- Pricing Formulas
- Differential Equation and Risk-Neutral Valuation
- 17.4 Valuation of European stock index options
- Forward Prices
- Implied Dividend Yields
- 17.5 Valuation of European currency options
- Using Forward Exchange Rates
- 17.6 American options
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 18: Futures options
- 18.1 Nature of futures options
- Expiration Months
- Options on Interest Rate Futures
- 18.2 Reasons for the popularity of futures options
- 18.3 European spot and futures options
- 18.4 Put-call parity
- 18.5 Bounds for futures options
- 18.6 Valuation of futures options using binomial trees
- A Generalization
- Multistep Trees
- 18.7 Drift of a futures prices in a risk-neutral world
- 18.8 Black's model for valuing futures options
- Using Black's Model Instead of Black-Scholes-Merton
- 18.9 American futures options vs. American spot options
- 18.10 Futures-style options
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 19: The Greek letters
- 19.1 Illustration
- 19.2 Naked and covered positions
- 19.3 A stop-loss strategy
- 19.4 Delta hedging
- Delta of European Stock Options
- Dynamic Aspects of Delta Hedging
- Where the Cost Comes From
- Delta of a Portfolio
- Transaction Costs
- 19.5 Theta
- 19.6 Gamma
- Making a Portfolio Gamma Neutral
- Calculation of Gamma
- 19.7 Relationship between delta, theta, and gamma
- 19.8 Vega
- 19.9 Rho
- 19.10 The realities of hedging
- 19.11 Scenario analysis
- 19.12 Extension of formulas
- Delta of Forward Contracts
- Delta of a Futures Contract
- 19.13 Portfolio insurance
- Use of Index Futures
- 19.14 Stock market volatility
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Appendix: Taylor series expansions and hedge parameters
- Chapter 20: Volatility smiles
- 20.1 Why the volatility smile is the same for calls and puts
- 20.2 Foreign currency options
- Empirical Results
- Reasons for the Smile in Foreign Currency Options
- 20.3 Equity options
- The Reason for the Smile in Equity Options
- 20.4 Alternative ways of characterizing the volatility smile
- 20.5 The volatility term structure and volatility surfaces
- 20.6 Greek letters
- 20.7 The role of the model
- 20.8 When a single large jump is anticipated
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Appendix: Determining implied risk-neutral distributions from volatility smiles
- Chapter 21: Basic numerical procedures
- 21.1 Binomial trees
- Risk-Neutral Valuation
- Determination of p, u, and d
- Tree of Asset Prices
- Working Backward through the Tree
- Expressing the Approach Algebraically
- Estimating Delta and Other Greek Letters
- 21.2 Using the binomial tree for options on indices, currencies, and futures contracts
- 21.3 Binomial model for a dividend-paying stock
- Known Dividend Yield
- Known Dollar Dividend
- Control Variate Technique
- 21.4 Alternative procedures for constructing trees
- Trinomial Trees
- 21.5 Time-dependent parameters
- 21.6 Monte Carlo simulation
- Derivatives Dependent on More than One Market Variable
- Generating the Random Samples from Normal Distributions
- Number of Trials
- Sampling through a Tree
- Calculating the Greek Letters
- Applications
- 21.7 Variance reduction procedures
- Antithetic Variable Technique
- Control Variate Technique
- Importance Sampling
- Stratified Sampling
- Moment Matching
- Using Quasi-Random Sequences
- 21.8 Finite difference methods
- Implicit Finite Difference Method
- Explicit Finite Difference Method
- Change of Variable
- Relation to Trinomial Tree Approaches
- Other Finite Difference Methods
- Applications of Finite Difference Methods
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 22: Value at Risk
- 22.1 The VaR measure
- The Time Horizon
- 22.2 Historical simulation
- Illustration: Investment in Four Stock Indices
- 22.3 Model-building approach
- Daily Volatilities
- Single-Asset Case
- Two-Asset Case
- The Benefits of Diversification
- 22.4 The linear model
- Correlation and Covariance Matrices
- Handling Interest Rates
- Applications of the Linear Model
- The Linear Model and Options
- 22.5 The quadratic model
- 22.6 Monte Carlo simulation
- 22.7 Comparison of approaches
- 22.8 Stress testing and back testing
- 22.9 Principal components analysis
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 23: Estimating volatilities and correlations
- 23.1 Estimating volatility
- Weighting Schemes
- 23.2 The exponentially weighted moving average model
- 23.3 The GARCH (1,1) model
- The Weights
- Mean Reversion
- 23.4 Choosing between the models
- 23.5 Maximum likelihood methods
- Estimating a Constant Variance
- Estimating EWMA or GARCH (1,1) Parameters
- How Good is the Model?
- 23.6 Using GARCH (1,1) to forecast future volatility
- Volatility Term Structures
- Impact of Volatility Changes
- 23.7 Correlations
- Consistency Condition for Covariances
- 23.8 Application of EWMA to four-index example
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 24: Credit risk
- 24.1 Credit ratings
- 24.2 Historical default probabilities
- Hazard Rates
- 24.3 Recovery rates
- The Dependence of Recovery Rates on Default Rates
- 24.4 Estimating default probabilities from bond yield spreads
- Matching Bond Prices
- The Risk-Free Rate
- Asset Swap Spreads
- 24.5 Comparison of default probability estimates
- Real-World vs. Risk-Neutral Probabilities
- Which Default Probability Estimate Should Be Used?
- 24.6 Using equity prices to estimate default probabilities
- 24.7 Credit risk in derivatives transactions
- CVA and DVA
- Credit Risk Mitigation
- Special Cases
- 24.8 Default correlation
- The Gaussian Copula Model for Time to Default
- A Factor-Based Correlation Structure
- 24.9 Credit VaR
- CreditMetrics
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 25: Credit derivatives
- 25.1 Credit default swaps
- Credit Default Swaps and Bond Yields
- The Cheapest-to-Deliver Bond
- 25.2 Valuation of credit default swaps
- Marking to Market a CDS
- Estimating Default Probabilities
- Binary Credit Default Swaps
- How Important is the Recovery Rate?
- 25.3 Credit indices
- 25.4 The use of fixed coupons
- 25.5 CDS forwards and options
- 25.6 Basket credit default swaps
- 25.7 Total return swaps
- 25.8 Collateralized debt obligations
- Synthetic CDOs
- Standard Portfolios and Single-Tranche Trading
- 25.9 Role of correlation in a basket CDS and CDO
- 25.10 Valuation of a synthetic CDO
- Using the Gaussian Copula Model of Time to Default
- Valuation of kth-to-Default CDS
- Implied Correlation
- Valuing Nonstandard Tranches
- 25.11 Alternatives to the standard market model
- Heterogeneous Model
- Other Copulas
- Random Factor Loadings
- The Implied Copula Model
- Dynamic Models
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 26: Exotic options
- 26.1 Packages
- 26.2 Perpetual American call and put options
- 26.3 Nonstandard American options
- 26.4 Gap options
- 26.5 Forward start options
- 26.6 Cliquet options
- 26.7 Compound options
- 26.8 Chooser options
- 26.9 Barrier options
- 26.10 Binary options
- 26.11 Lookback options
- 26.12 Shout options
- 26.13 Asian options
- 26.14 Options to exchange one asset for another
- 26.15 Options involving several assets
- 26.16 Volatility and variance swaps
- Valuation of Variance Swap
- Valuation of a Volatility Swap
- The VIX Index
- 26.17 Static options replication
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 27: More on models and numerical procedures
- 27.1 Alternatives to Black-Scholes-Merton
- The Constant Elasticity of Variance Model
- Merton's Mixed Jump-Diffusion Model
- The Variance-Gamma Model
- 27.2 Stochastic volatility models
- 27.3 The IVF model
- 27.4 Convertible bonds
- 27.5 Path-dependent derivatives
- Illustration Using Lookback Options
- Generalization
- 27.6 Barrier options
- The Adaptive Mesh Model
- 27.7 Options on two correlated assets
- Transforming Variables
- Using a Nonrectangular Tree
- Adjusting the Probabilities
- 27.8 Monte Carlo simulation and American options
- The Least-Squares Approach
- The Exercise Boundary Parameterization Approach
- Upper Bounds
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 28: Martingales and measures
- 28.1 The market price of risk
- Alternative Worlds
- 28.2 Several state variables
- 28.3 Martingales
- The Equivalent Martingale Measure Result
- 28.4 Alternative choices for the numeraire
- Money Market Account as the Numeraire
- Zero-Coupon Bond Price as the Numeraire
- Interest Rates When Zero-Coupon Bond Price is the Numeraire
- Annuity Factor as the Numeraire
- 28.5 Extension to several factors
- 28.6 Black's model revisited
- 28.7 Option to exchange one asset for another
- 28.8 Change of numeraire
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 29: Interest rate derivatives: The standard market models
- 29.1 Bond options
- Embedded Bond Options
- European Bond Options
- Yield Volatilities
- 29.2 Interest rate caps and floors
- The Cap as a Portfolio of Interest Rate Options
- A Cap as a Portfolio of Bond Options
- Floors and Collars
- Valuation of Caps and Floors
- Spot Volatilities vs. Flat Volatilities
- Theoretical Justification for the Model
- Use of DerivaGem
- The Impact of Day Count Conventions
- 29.3 European swap options
- Valuation of European Swaptions
- Broker Quotes
- Theoretical Justification for the Swaption Model
- The Impact of Day Count Conventions
- 29.4 OIS discounting
- 29.5 Hedging interest rate derivatives
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 30: Convexity, timing, and quanto adjustments
- 30.1 Convexity adjustments
- Application 1: Interest Rates
- Application 2: Swap Rates
- 30.2 Timing adjustments
- Application 1 Revisited
- 30.3 Quantos
- Using Traditional Risk-Neutral Measures
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Appendix: Proof of the convexity adjustment formula
- Chapter 31: Interest rate derivatives: models of the short rate
- 31.1 Background
- 31.2 Equilibrium models
- The Rendleman and Bartter Model
- The Vasicek Model
- The Cox, Ingersoll, and Ross Model
- Properties of Vasicek and CIR
- Applications of Equilibrium Models
- 31.3 No-arbitrage models
- The Ho-Lee Model
- The Hull-White (One-Factor) Model
- The Black-Derman-Toy Model
- The Black-Karasinski Model
- The Hull-White Two-Factor Model
- 31.4 Options on bonds
- 31.5 Volatility structures
- 31.6 Interest rate trees
- Illustration of Use of Trinomial Trees
- Nonstandard Branching
- 31.7 A general tree-building procedure
- First Stage
- Second Stage
- Illustration of Second Stage
- Formulas for a's and Q's
- Extension to Other Models
- Handling Low Interest Rate Environments
- Using Analytic Results in Conjunction with Trees
- Tree for American Bond Options
- 31.8 Calibration
- 31.9 Hedging using a one-factor model
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 32: HJM, LMM, and multiple zero curves
- 32.1 The Heath, Jarrow, and Morton model
- Processes for Zero-Coupon Bond Prices and Forward Rates
- Extension to Several Factors
- 32.2 The LIBOR market model
- The Model
- Forward Rate Volatilities
- Implementation of the Model
- Extension to Several Factors
- Ratchet Caps, Sticky Caps, and Flexi Caps
- Valuing European Swap Options
- Calibrating the Model
- Volatility Skews
- Bermudan Swap Options
- 32.3 Handling multiple zero curves
- 32.4 Agency mortgage-backed securities
- Collateralized Mortgage Obligations
- Valuing Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities
- Option-Adjusted Spread
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 33: Swaps Revisited
- 33.1 Variations on the vanilla deal
- 33.2 Compounding swaps
- 33.3 Currency swaps
- 33.4 More complex swaps
- LIBOR-in-Arrears Swap
- CMS and CMT Swaps
- Differential Swaps
- 33.5 Equity swaps
- 33.6 Swaps with embedded options
- Accrual Swaps
- Cancelable Swap
- Cancelable Compounding Swaps
- 33.7 Other swaps
- Bizarre Deals
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 34: Energy and commodity derivatives
- 34.1 Agricultural commodities
- 34.2 Metals
- 34.3 Energy products
- Crude Oil
- Natural Gas
- Electricity
- 34.4 Modeling commodity prices
- A Simple Process
- Mean Reversion
- Interpolation and Seasonality
- Jumps
- Other Models
- 34.5 Weather derivatives
- 34.6 Insurance derivatives
- 34.7 Pricing weather and insurance derivatives
- 34.8 How an energy producer can hedge risks
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further question
- Chapter 35: Real options
- 35.1 Capital investment appraisal
- 35.2 Extension of the risk-neutral valuation framework
- 35.3 Estimating the market price of risk
- 35.4 Application to the valuation of a business
- 35.5 Evaluating options in an investment opportunity
- Illustration
- Evaluation with No Embedded Options
- Use of a Tree
- Option to Abandon
- Option to Expand
- Multiple Options
- Several Stochastic Variables
- Summary
- Further reading
- Practice questions
- Further questions
- Chapter 36: Derivatives mishaps and what we can learn from them
- 36.1 Lessons for all users of derivatives
- Define Risk Limits
- Take the Risk Limits Seriously
- Do Not Assume You Can Outguess the Market
- Do Not Underestimate the Benefits of Diversification
- Carry out Scenario Analyses and Stress Tests
- 36.2 Lessons for financial institutions
- Monitor Traders Carefully
- Separate the Front, Middle, and Back Office
- Do Not Blindly Trust Models
- Be Conservative in Recognizing Inception Profits
- Do Not Sell Clients Inappropriate Products
- Beware of Easy Profits
- Do Not Ignore Liquidity Risk
- Beware When Everyone is Following the Same Trading Strategy
- Do Not Make Excessive Use of Short-Term Funding for Long-Term Needs
- Market Transparency is Important
- Manage Incentives
- Never Ignore Risk Management
- 36.3 Lessons for nonfinancial corporations
- Make Sure You Fully Understand the Trades You are Doing
- Make Sure a Hedger Does Not Become a Speculator
- Be Cautious about Making the Treasury Department a Profit Center
- Summary
- Further reading
- Glossary of Terms
- DerivaGem Software
- Major exchanges trading futures and options
- Tables for N(x) When x = 0
- Tables for N(x) When x = 0
- Author index
- Subject index
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