Business Skills - General & Miscellaneous, Derivatives - General & Miscellaneous, Mathematics - Applied, Securities - General & Miscellaneous

Derivatives and Financial Mathematics

Name: Derivatives and Financial Mathematics
Author: John F Price
ISBN: 9781560725114

by John F Price

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The application of mathematics to important problems related to financial derivatives and risk management has expanded rapidly in recent years. The general area of this book is the application of mathematics to understanding properties of options. Options, in turn, are examples of what are referred to as derivative securities, or simply, derivatives. A derivative is a financial contract written on an underlying asset and it's value is derived from the value of this asset. The underlying asset might be a stock, a foreign currency, a treasury bill, a commodity, such as aviation fuel, or even another derivative. The two major types of derivatives are futures (or forwards) and options. They are traded on organized exchanges around the world, in which case the contracts are standardized with respect to most or all of the key variables. They can also be bought and sold through major banks and financial institutions in which case they are referred to as over-the counter derivatives.

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Eleven papers drawn from a March 1996 conference sponsored by the American Mathematical Society at the University of Iowa concern various types of problems considered in modern risk mathematics and some of the principal mathematical tools used to solve them, derivatives on interest rate instruments, insurance derivatives used by the insurance industry to reinsure risks against natural catastrophes, the education one needs to begin a career in the mathematical side of the risk management industry, current programs in computational and mathematical finance, and various applications of mathematics to current problems in the analysis of options and their markets. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.