The book then has sections on: -Most Popular Probability Distributions and Their Uses in Finance -Ten Different Ways to Derive Black-Scholes -Models and Equations -The Black-Scholes formula and the Greeks -Common Contracts -Popular Quant Books -The Most Popular Search Words and Phrases on [...] -Brainteasers -Paul & Dominic's Guide to Getting a Quant Job it covers a lot of ground in a little more than 400 pages but it is a useful...

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In recent years, Fourier transform methods have emerged as one of the major methodologies for the evaluation of derivative contracts, largely due to the need to strike a balance between the extension of existing pricing models beyond the traditional Black-Scholes setting and a need to evaluate prices consistently with the market quotes. Fourier Transform Methods in Finance is a practical and accessible guide to pricing financial instruments...

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Foundations of Finance, though long out of print and nearly impossible to find, is a superbly readable introduction to the theory of finance. Though somewhat dated by the work that Fama and other economists have done in the past 25 years, this book covers a lot of ground in great detail. 1. Introduction (L. Renneboog) Part 1: Corporate restructuring 2. Mergers and acquisitions in Europe (M. Martynova, L. Renneboog). 3. The performance of...

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This textbook will be designed for fixed-income securities courses taught on MSc Finance and MBA courses. There is currently no suitable text that offers a 'Hull-type' book for the fixed income student market. This book aims to fill this need. The book will contain numerous worked examples, excel spreadsheets, with a building block approach throughout. A key feature of the book will be coverage of both traditional and alternative investment...

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What is Financial Mathematics? Introduction • Financial Mathematics is a collection of mathematical techniques that find applications in finance, e.g. – Asset pricing: derivative securities. – Hedging and risk management – Portfolio optimization – Structured products • There are two main approaches: – Partial Differential Equations – Probability and Stochastic Processes Short History of Financial Mathematics • 1900:...

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This book describes valuation as an exercise in financial statement analysis. Students learn to view a firm through its financial statements and to carry out the appropriate financial statement analysis to value the firm’s debt and equity. The book takes an activist approach to investing, showing how the analyst challenges the current market price of a share by analyzing the fundamentals. With a careful assessment of accounting quality,...

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This book covers all aspects of budget preparation, from designing and creating a budgetary control system, consolidating data and working with spreadsheets. Now fully updated to include the latest version of Excel, Excel 2007 and for easy budgeting now with access to an online resource of worked examples and spreadsheet templates. The book shows how things are done in Excel 2003 and Excel 2007 to ease transition from the previous version...

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Too often, finance courses stop short of making a connection between textbook finance and the problems of real-world business. Financial Modeling bridges this gap between theory and practice by providing a nuts-and-bolts guide to solving common financial models with spreadsheets. Simon Benninga takes the reader step by step through each model, showing how it can be solved using Microsoft Excel. The long-awaited third edition of this standard...

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INTRODUCTION Jane Johnson is considering selling T-shirts in the parking lot during her university’s football games. Jane, of course, will do this only if she expects to make a profit. To es- timate her profits, Jane needs certain pieces of information, such as the cost of a shirt, the university’s charge for the right to conduct business on its property, the expected selling price, and the expected sales volume. Suppose Jane has developed...

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Spreadsheet Basics After studying this chapter, you should be able to: Explain the basic purpose of a spreadsheet program. Identify the various components of the Excel screen. Navigate the Excel worksheet (entering, correcting, and moving data within the worksheet). Explain the purpose and usage of Excel’s built-in functions and macro functions. Create graphics and know how to print and save files in Excel. The term “spreadsheet”...

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This book provides an assessment of the role of the International Monetary Fund in poor countries. In recent years, a large portion of the work of the IMF has focused on the economies of low-income countries by aiming to create conditions conducive to poverty reduction and stable economic growth. More than two fifths of the IMF's 185 members are low-income countries and many others have substantial pockets of poverty in their populations....

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FINANCE APPLICATIONS OF GAME THEORY Franklin Allen and Stephen Morris * Finance is concerned with how the savings of investors are allocated through financial markets and intermediaries to firms, which use them to fund their activities. Finance can be broadly divided into two fields. The first is asset pricing, which is concerned with the decisions of investors. The second is corporate finance, which is concerned with the decisions of firms....

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