| Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (4th Edition) |
 Options, Futures, and Other Derivatives (4th Edition)Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 332.645 EAN: 9780130224446 Edition: 4 Har/Dsk ISBN: 0130224448 Label: Prentice Hall Manufacturer: Prentice Hall Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 720 Publication Date: January 15, 2000 Publisher: Prentice Hall Studio: Prentice Hall Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: For undergraduate and graduate courses in Options and Futures, Financial Engineering, and Risk Management, typically found in business, finance, economics and mathematics departments. This fifth edition text represents how academia and real-world practice have come together with a common respect and focus of theory and practice. It provides a unifying approach to the valuation of all derivatives. This popular course text is considered to be "the bible" by practitioners. The fifth edition has a total of seven new chapters. Average Rating:  Rating:  - Best book on the subjectThis is by far the best book on the subject., September 20, 1996 By A Customer (A. Jaramillo) I have read most of the books on derivatives and mathematical finance. I have also read the most important papers on the subject, and no book covers the subject so extensively and so carefully. The difficult math is explained by Hull in a brilliantly intuitive way, without sacrificing the mathematical rigor. He explains succinctly and accurately the heart of the most advanced papers in ... Read More Rating: - The gold standard (although you may not need to upgrade to the seventh edition)This is the definitive introduction to derivatives. As evidence of its relevance, the following chapters are assigned to Financial Risk Manager (FRM) candidates: Hedging Strategies using Futures (Chapter 3), Determination of Forward and Futures Prices (5), Interest Rate Futures (6), Swaps (7), Properties of Stock Options (9), Trading Strategies Involving Options (10), Binomial Trees (11), Black-Scholes-Merton Model (13), Greeks (15), Volatility Smiles (16), Exotic Options (22). Given that ... Read More Rating: - Awesome!That's a fantastic book. For people who wants to learn about derivatives and finantial markets it helps a lot. Because the book has a lot of maths I do not recommend it for people who does not have a good math support. Still, I think it is a good buy. If you have any doubt concerning this topic it can always give you an aid. Rating: - classical bookI was planning to buy this book for a few years. This is a classical book on Derivatives. A must have for anyone that is interested in learning how derivatives work and how to price them. It provides good reasoning and intuitive ideas on risk-neutral pricing. I tried learning that from other books before but the main ideas are so well explained here that now I can understand what those other books say (concepts like market price of risk and the equivalent martingale result for change of numeraire). ... Read More Rating: - Easy for complexEven the subject cover by the book. The author masters in explaning it a lot of examples, comprehensive language and a lot of exercises. I enjoyed the book and started to use it as a course book. |
