Financial Derivatives Modeling

Covering all major asset classes from equities to foreign exhange, this comprehensive introduction to the modeling of financial derivatives takes readers from Black and Scholes' lognormal modeling to today's research on 'skew' and 'smile' models.

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The book gives a comprehensive introduction to the modeling of financial derivatives, covering all major asset classes (equities, commodities, interest rates and foreign exchange) and stretching from Black and Scholes' lognormal modeling to current-day research on skew and smile models. The intended reader has a solid mathematical background and is a graduate/final-year undergraduate student specializing in Mathematical Finance, or works at a financial institution such as an investment bank or a hedge fund.