Mathematics of Financial Markets / Edition 2

by Robert J Elliott, P. Ekkehard Kopp

Overview

This work is aimed at an audience with a sound mathematical background wishing to learn about the rapidly expanding field of mathematical—nance. Its content is suitable particularly for graduate students in mathematics who have a background in measure theory and probability. The emphasis throughout is on developing the mathematical concepts required for the theory within the context of their application. No attempt is made to cover the bewildering variety of novel (or ‘exotic’)—nancial - struments that now appear on the derivatives markets; the focus throu- out remains on a rigorous development of the more basic options that lie at the heart of the remarkable range of current applications of martingale theory to—nancial markets. The first five chapters present the theory in a discrete-time framework. Shastic calculus is not required, and this material should be accessible to anyone familiar with elementary probability theory and linear algebra. The basic idea of pricing by arbitrage (or, rather, by non-arbitrage) is presented in Chapter 1. The unique price for a European option in a single-period binomial model is given and then extended to multi-period binomial models. Chapter 2 introduces the idea of a martingale measure for price processes. Following a discussion of the use of self-?nancing tr- ing strategies to hedge against trading risk, it is shown how options can be priced using an equivalent measure for which the discounted price process is a martingale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387212920
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	10/08/2004
Series:	Springer Finance
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2005
Pages:	354
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Pricing by Arbitrage.- Martingale Measures.- The First Fundamental Theorem.- Complete Markets.- Discrete-time American Options.- Continuous-Time Shastic Calculus.- Continuous-Time European Options.- The American Put Option.- Bonds and Term Structure.- Consumption-Investment Strategies.- Measures of Risk.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"...This book is a valuable addition to a graduate student's reference collection. The number of textbooks in mathematical finance is increasing much faster than the number of revolutionary contributions to the field, but this text stands above the crowd." SIAM Review, December 2005

From the reviews of the second edition:

"The book is very carefully formatted. … this book is a valuable addition to a graduate student’s reference collection. The number of textbooks in mathematical finance is increasing much faster than the number of revolutionary contributions to the field, but this text stands above the crowd." (Alexandre D’Aspremont, SIAM Reviews, December, 2005)

"The emphasis of the first edition of this book was on developing the mathematical concepts for the rapidly expanding field of mathematical finance. This second edition contains a significant number of changes and additions … . The target audience is readers with sound mathematical background on elementary concepts from measure-theoretic probability … . It should be an equally valuable resource to practitioners interested in the mathematical tools … . will be a very useful addition to any scholarly library." (Theofanis Sapatinas, Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 32 (6), 2005)

"The second edition adds new matieral from current active research areas. A new chapter on coherent risk measures for instance reflects the recent trend in research and applications in the area of risk management. In summary, this is an excellent textbook in mathematical finance, and I can definitely recommend it." (S. Peng, Short Book Reviews of the ISI, June 2006)

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