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Quantitative finance : a simulation-based introduction using Excel /

"Teach Your Students How to Become Successful Working QuantsQuantitative Finance: A Simulation-Based Introduction Using Excel provides an introduction to financial mathematics for students in applied mathematics, financial engineering, actuarial science, and business administration. The text no...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Davison, Matt
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boca Raton : Chapman and Hall/CRC, [2014]
Series:A Chapman & Hall Book
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Online Access:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Intuition about uncertainty and risk
  • The classical approach to decision making under uncertainty
  • Valuing investment opportunities: the discounted cash flow method
  • Repaying loans over time
  • Bond pricing with default: using simulations
  • Bond pricing with default: using difference equations
  • Difference equations for life annuities
  • Tranching and collateralized debt obligations
  • Bond CDOs: more than two bonds, correlation, and simulation
  • Fundamentals of fixed income markets
  • Yield curves and bond risk measures
  • Forward rates
  • Modeling stock prices
  • Mean variance portfolio optimization
  • A qualitative introduction to options
  • Value at risk
  • Pricing options using binomial trees
  • Random walks
  • Basic stochastic calculus
  • Simulating geometric Brownian motion
  • Black Scholes PDE for pricing options in continuous time
  • Solving the Black Scholes PDE
  • Pricing Put options using Put Call Parity
  • Some approximate values of the Black Scholes Call Formula
  • Simulating Delta hedging
  • Black Scholes with Dividends
  • American options
  • Pricing the perpetual American Put and Call
  • Options on multiple underlying assets
  • Interest rate models
  • Incomplete markets.