Understanding Futures Markets [Hardcover]

Robert W. Kolb (Author)

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Series: Understanding Futures Markets | Publication Date: August 11, 1997

Understanding Futures Markets, surveys the broad sweep of futures markets as they exist in the United States.

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Understanding Futures Markets surveys the broad sweep of futures markets as they exist in the United States. This book attempts to cover all of the historical developments of the futures market in a manner accessible to a wide range of readers. Yet the book offers an unparalleled breadth and depth of coverage. The mathematical demands placed on the reader and modest, yet sufficient mathematical detail is included to ensure a thorough treatment of pricing principles.

Realizing that not every reader will be interested in every aspect of the futures markets, the chapters are organized to facilitate access to specific futures markets. Where the book considers particular aspects of the market in detail, the material is broken into two chapters, one for the basics and a second for refinements.

About the Author

Robert W. Kolb is a Professor of Finance and Director of the Center for Business and Society at the University of Colorado. He is author and editor of over a dozen books and numerous articles on finance and investments. He devotes his time to writing and research, especially in the areas of futures markets, investments, and bond portfolio management. He was previously a Professor of Finance at the University of Florida, Emory University, and the University of Miami.

James A. Overdahl is Chief Economist at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C., and has held senior positions at the Risk Analysis Division at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and at the Securities and Exchange Commission. He has been an adjunct professor of business at Georgetown University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, George Mason University, and Johns Hopkins University. Overdahl is co-author with Robert Kolb of Financial Derivatives 3e. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 552 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 5 edition (August 11, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1577180658
• ISBN-13: 978-1577180654
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,308,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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

Photographic: http://www.kolbphoto.com

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This review is from: Understanding Futures Markets (Paperback)

I doubt anyone will understand futures markets after reading this book... I got it only because it was required for the class and I don't like the way the material is presented, the book is very confusing, there are not enough of problems and even those few that are there are too simplistic. Before my exam I beleive I learnt the book by heart and it didn't help me at the actual exam... I wouldn't recommend this text book!