My understanding of derivatives has been purely mathematical, so it's great to learn about all the historical developments, the background material, and all the interesting anecdotes the authors have included.
- Professor Kevin Aretz, University of Manchester, UK
This book's interest rate derivatives chapters are some of the best chapters I have read, because the authors have provided an outstanding and distinctive work in teaching the basics, examples, and practical applications of interest rate derivatives and the Heath-Jarrow-Morton (HJM) model.
- Professor Scott Fung, California State University, East Bay, USA
Written by two of the most distinguished finance scholars in the industry, this introductory textbook on derivatives and risk management is highly accessible in terms of the concepts as well as the mathematics.
With its economics perspective, this rewritten and streamlined second edition textbook, is closely connected to real markets, and:
- Shows how macroeconomic forces have shaped the markets
- Explains the major derivative pricing models using algebra and introductory calculus
- Shows students how to implement these models using basic statistics and elementary Excel spreadsheet skills
- Discusses the uses of derivatives while warning against their abuses
- Presents hard-to-teach interest rate derivatives in an intuitive manner
- Presents the Heath Jarrow Morton model, which is the most advanced derivatives pricing model, in an accessible manner by presenting it side-by-side with classical option pricing theory
Beginning at a level that is comfortable to lower division college students, the book gradually develops the content so that its lessons can be profitably used by business majors, arts, science, and engineering graduates as well as MBAs who would work in the finance industry.
Robert A Jarrow is the Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Professor of Investment Management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. He is among the most distinguished finance scholars of his generation. Jarrow has done research in nearly all areas of derivatives pricing. He is the co-developer of two widely used pricing models in finance, the Heath Jarrow Morton (HJM) model for pricing interest-rate derivatives and the reduced form model for pricing securities with credit risk. He is the author of more than 200 academic publications, seven books including Option Pricing (with Andrew Rudd, 1983), Modelling Fixed Income Securities and Interest Rate Options (1996), and Derivative Securities (with Stuart Turnbull, 2000), and several edited volumes.
Arkadev Chatterjea is a Visiting Professor of Finance, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington. He is also a Research Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill and a Visiting Fellow at CHERI, Cornell University. He did his PhD at Cornell, where he was a student of Jarrow. Earlier, he was a Professor of Finance at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. A winner of research and teaching awards in the USA, Chatterjea has taught derivatives at the above universities and at other institutions including CU Boulder, the Helsinki School, Hong Kong UST, and IIM Ahmedabad.
