Bonds and Bond Derivatives

This book provides an introduction to bond markets and bond derivatives for students as well as for executives in commercial businesses and financial institutions. It also:

• Presents the essential elements of debt instruments in an intuitive manner;
• Covers updated institutional material, new sections on callable bonds and the yield to call, convertible bonds, and methods for estimating and modern models of term structure of interest rates, as well as a comprehensive discussion of bonds in the European Economic Union;
• Includes additional end-of-chapter questions, PowerPoint slides, and an Instructor's text bank through the author's website: http://bear.cba.ufl.edu/livingston

Miles Livingston is Professor of Finance at the University of Florida. He holds an MBA and PhD in Finance from New York University, and has taught at the University of Wisconsin, York University, Concordia University and the College of William and Mary. Livingston is the author of Money and Capital Markets, also published by Blackwell.