Understanding Credit Derivatives and Related Instruments - Hardcover

Bomfim, Antulio N.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 012800116X ISBN 13: 9780128001165

Publisher: Academic Press, 2015

Synopsis

Understanding Credit Derivatives and Related Instruments, Second Edition is an intuitive, rigorous overview that links the practices of valuing and trading credit derivatives with academic theory. Rather than presenting highly technical explorations, the book offers summaries of major subjects and the principal perspectives associated with them.

The book's centerpiece is pricing and valuation issues, especially valuation tools and their uses in credit models. Five new chapters cover practices that have become commonplace as a result of the 2008 financial crisis, including standardized premiums and upfront payments. Analyses of regulatory responses to the crisis for the credit derivatives market (Basel III, Dodd-Frank, etc.) include all the necessary statistical and mathematical background for readers to easily follow the pricing topics.

Every reader familiar with mid-level mathematics who wants to understand the functioning of the derivatives markets (in both practical and academic contexts) can fully satisfy his or her interests with the comprehensive assessments in this book.

• Explores the role that credit derivatives played during the economic crisis, both as hedging instruments and as vehicles that potentially magnified losses for some investors
• Comprehensive overview of single-name and multi-name credit derivatives in terms of market specifications, pricing techniques, and regulatory treatment
• Updated edition uses current market statistics (market size, market participants, and uses of credit derivatives), covers the application of CDS technology to other asset classes (CMBX, ABX, etc.), and expands the treatment of individual instruments to cover index products, and more

About this title

About the Author

Antulio N. Bomfim Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of Monetary Policy Insights at Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in

Economics at the University of Maryland and his M.Sc.in Mathematical Finance at the University of Oxford.

From the Back Cover

This intuitive, rigorous overview links academic theory with the practices valuing and trading credit derivatives. Rather than presenting highly technical explorations, it offers summaries of major subjects and the principal perspectives associated with them. Its centerpiece is pricing and valuation issues, especially valuation tools and their uses in credit models. Five new chapters cover practices that have become commonplace as a result of the crisis, including standardized premiums and up-front payments. The analyses of regulatory responses to the crisis (Basel III, Dodd Frank, etc) for the credit derivatives market include all the necessary statistical and mathematical background for readers to easily follow the pricing parts. Every reader who is familiar with mid-level mathematics and who wants to understand the functioning of the derivatives markets (both on the practice and academic side) can fully satisfy his or her interests with Understanding Credit Derivatives and Related Instruments.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 012800116X
• ISBN 13: 9780128001165
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 420