An Introduction to the Mathematics of Financial Derivatives

Professor Neftci completed his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota and was head of the FAME Certificate program in Switzerland. He taught at the Graduate School, City University of New York; ICMA Centre, University of Reading; and at the University of Lausanne. He was also a Visiting Professor in the Finance Department at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Known his books and articles, he was a regular columnist for CBN daily, the most influential financial newspaper in China. Salih Neftci was already suffering from gliosarcoma, a malignant brain cancer, while writing the second edition. It published just 5 months before his death on April 15, 2009.

Financial Derivatives; A Primer on Arbitrage Theorem; Calculus in Deterministic and Stochastic Environments; Pricing Derivatives: Models and Notation; Tools in Probability Theory; Martingales and Martingale Representations; Differentiation in Stochastic Environments; The Wiener Process and Rare Events in Financial Markets; Integration in Stochastic Environments; The Dynamics of Derivative Prices; Pricing Derivative Products; The Black-Scholes PDE; Pricing Derivative Products; Equivalent Martingale Measures; New Results and Tools for Interest Sensitive Securities; Arbitrage Theorem in a New Setting: Normalization and Random Interest Rates; Modeling Term Structure and Related Concepts; Classical and HJM Approaches to Fixed Income; Classical PDE Analysis for Interest Rate Derivatives; Relating Conditional Expectations to PDEs; Stopping Times and American-Type Securities; Bibliography; Index.