Practical Readings in Financial Derivatives [Paperback]

Robert W. Kolb (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 12, 1998

Two central themes govern the content--the pricing of financial derivatives and their practical application in risk management.

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Practical Readings in Financial Derivatives is a collection of 20 articles spanning major developments in the field in theory and practice. Two central themes govern the content. These are the pricing of financial derivatives and their application in risk management. Section I, Instruments and Pricing, sets forth the derivatives and the principles for pricing them. Section II, Risk Management Applications, illustrates how financial derivatives may be used singly, or in combination, to manage the types of risk encountered in business today.

The applied orientation and contemporary selection make Practical Readings in Financial Derivatives a strong supplement to any course on futures, options, swaps, or financial engineering. Readers will welcome the accessible nature of the articles which approach financial derivatives from a "real world" perspective, rather than a strictly technical view.

About the Author

Robert W. Kolb has 17 years' experience teaching finance at university level. A prolific writer of scholarly publications, he has published 50 journal articles and over 20 textbooks in the area of finance. His principal areas of research interest are financial derivatives, investments, and bond portfolios.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (February 12, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577180844
• ISBN-13: 978-1577180845
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,564,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert W. Kolb

Kolb holds two Ph.D.s from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (philosophy 1974, finance 1978) and has been a finance professor at the University of Florida, Emory University, the University of Miami, the University of Colorado, and currently at Loyola University Chicago, where he holds the Considine Chair of Applied Ethics.

Kolb's recent writings include Understanding Futures Markets 6e, and Futures, Options, and Swaps 5e, co-authored with James A. Overdahl. Edited volumes include The Ethics of Executive Compensation, The Ethics of Genetic Commerce, Corporate Retirement Security: Social and Ethical Issues, Corporate Boards: Managers of Risk, Sources of Risk, and the Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, a five-volume 1.5 million word work. Bob recently published Lessons from the Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Our Economic Future. Current projects include: Employee Stock Options: Financial, Social, and Ethical Issues and The Financial Crisis of Our Time, forthcoming from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and Oxford University Press, respectively.

Bob also is the sponsoring editor for the Robert W. Kolb Series in Finance:

http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-397613.html

Also, visit Bob's web pages:

Academic and professional: http://www.RobertWKolb.com

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