The Resource An Introduction to Financial Markets : a Quantitative Approach
An Introduction to Financial Markets : a Quantitative Approach
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The item An Introduction to Financial Markets : a Quantitative Approach represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
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- Summary
- This comprehensive yet accessible book introduces students to financial markets and delves into more advanced material at a steady pace while providing motivating examples, poignant remarks, counterexamples, ideological clashes, and intuitive traps throughout
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (783 pages)
- Note
- ""3.6 A digression: Elementary investment analysis""
- Contents
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- ""An Introduction to Financial Markets: A Quantitative Approach""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""About the Companion Website""; ""Part I Overview""; ""1 Financial Markets: Functions, Institutions, and Traded Assets""; ""1.1 What is the purpose of finance?""; ""1.2 Traded assets""; ""1.2.1 The balance sheet""; ""1.2.2 Assets vs. securities""; ""1.2.3 Equity""; ""1.2.4 Fixed income""; ""1.2.5 FOREX markets""; ""1.2.6 Derivatives""; ""1.3 Market participants and their roles""; ""1.3.1 Commercial vs. investment banks""; ""1.3.2 Investment funds and insurance companies""
- ""1.3.3 Dealers and brokers""""1.3.4 Hedgers, speculators, and arbitrageurs""; ""1.4 Market structure and trading strategies""; ""1.4.1 Primary and secondary markets""; ""1.4.2 Over-the-counter vs. exchange-traded derivatives""; ""1.4.3 Auction mechanisms and the limit order book""; ""1.4.4 Buying on margin and leverage""; ""1.4.5 Short-selling""; ""1.5 Market indexes""; ""Problems""; ""Further reading""; ""Bibliography""; ""2 Basic Problems in Quantitative Finance""; ""2.1 Portfolio optimization""; ""2.1.1 Static portfolio optimization: Meanâ#x80;#x93;variance efficiency""
- ""2.1.2 Dynamic decision-making under uncertainty: A stylized consumptionâ#x80;#x93;saving model""""2.2 Risk measurement and management""; ""2.2.1 Sensitivity of asset prices to underlying risk factors""; ""2.2.2 Risk measures in a non-normal world: Value-atrisk""; ""2.2.3 Riskmanagement: Introductory hedging examples""; ""2.2.4 Financial vs. nonfinancial risk factors""; ""2.3 The no-arbitrage principle in asset pricing""; ""2.3.1 Why do we need asset pricing models?""; ""2.3.2 Arbitrage strategies""; ""2.3.3 Pricing by no-arbitrage""; ""2.3.4 Option pricing in a binomial model""
- ""2.3.5 The limitations of the no-arbitrage principle""""2.4 The mathematics of arbitrage""; ""2.4.1 Linearity of the pricing functional and law of one price""; ""2.4.2 Dominant strategies""; ""2.4.3 No-arbitrage principle and risk-neutral measures""; ""S2.1 Multiobjective optimization""; ""S2.2 Summary of LP duality""; ""Problems""; ""Further reading""; ""Bibliography""; ""Part II Fixed-income assets""; ""3 Elementary Theory of Interest Rates""; ""3.1 The time value of money: Shifting money forward in time""; ""3.1.1 Simple vs. compounded rates""
- ""3.1.2 Quoted vs. effective rates: Compounding frequencies""""3.2 The time value of money: Shifting money backward in time""; ""3.2.1 Discount factors and pricing a zero-coupon bond""; ""3.2.2 Discount factors vs. interest rates""; ""3.3 Nominal vs. real interest rates""; ""3.4 The term structure of interest rates""; ""3.5 Elementary bond pricing""; ""3.5.1 Pricing coupon-bearing bonds""; ""3.5.2 Frombond prices to term structures, and vice versa""; ""3.5.3 What is a risk-free rate, anyway?""; ""3.5.4 Yield-to-maturity""; ""3.5.5 Interest rate risk""; ""3.5.6 Pricing floating rate bonds""
- Isbn
- 9781119450290
- Label
- An Introduction to Financial Markets : a Quantitative Approach
- Title
- An Introduction to Financial Markets
- Title remainder
- a Quantitative Approach
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This comprehensive yet accessible book introduces students to financial markets and delves into more advanced material at a steady pace while providing motivating examples, poignant remarks, counterexamples, ideological clashes, and intuitive traps throughout
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brandimarte, Paolo
- Dewey number
- 332
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HF5470
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Markets
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- Markets
- Label
- An Introduction to Financial Markets : a Quantitative Approach
- Note
- ""3.6 A digression: Elementary investment analysis""
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from an electronic resource
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- ""An Introduction to Financial Markets: A Quantitative Approach""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""About the Companion Website""; ""Part I Overview""; ""1 Financial Markets: Functions, Institutions, and Traded Assets""; ""1.1 What is the purpose of finance?""; ""1.2 Traded assets""; ""1.2.1 The balance sheet""; ""1.2.2 Assets vs. securities""; ""1.2.3 Equity""; ""1.2.4 Fixed income""; ""1.2.5 FOREX markets""; ""1.2.6 Derivatives""; ""1.3 Market participants and their roles""; ""1.3.1 Commercial vs. investment banks""; ""1.3.2 Investment funds and insurance companies""
- ""1.3.3 Dealers and brokers""""1.3.4 Hedgers, speculators, and arbitrageurs""; ""1.4 Market structure and trading strategies""; ""1.4.1 Primary and secondary markets""; ""1.4.2 Over-the-counter vs. exchange-traded derivatives""; ""1.4.3 Auction mechanisms and the limit order book""; ""1.4.4 Buying on margin and leverage""; ""1.4.5 Short-selling""; ""1.5 Market indexes""; ""Problems""; ""Further reading""; ""Bibliography""; ""2 Basic Problems in Quantitative Finance""; ""2.1 Portfolio optimization""; ""2.1.1 Static portfolio optimization: Meanâ#x80;#x93;variance efficiency""
- ""2.1.2 Dynamic decision-making under uncertainty: A stylized consumptionâ#x80;#x93;saving model""""2.2 Risk measurement and management""; ""2.2.1 Sensitivity of asset prices to underlying risk factors""; ""2.2.2 Risk measures in a non-normal world: Value-atrisk""; ""2.2.3 Riskmanagement: Introductory hedging examples""; ""2.2.4 Financial vs. nonfinancial risk factors""; ""2.3 The no-arbitrage principle in asset pricing""; ""2.3.1 Why do we need asset pricing models?""; ""2.3.2 Arbitrage strategies""; ""2.3.3 Pricing by no-arbitrage""; ""2.3.4 Option pricing in a binomial model""
- ""2.3.5 The limitations of the no-arbitrage principle""""2.4 The mathematics of arbitrage""; ""2.4.1 Linearity of the pricing functional and law of one price""; ""2.4.2 Dominant strategies""; ""2.4.3 No-arbitrage principle and risk-neutral measures""; ""S2.1 Multiobjective optimization""; ""S2.2 Summary of LP duality""; ""Problems""; ""Further reading""; ""Bibliography""; ""Part II Fixed-income assets""; ""3 Elementary Theory of Interest Rates""; ""3.1 The time value of money: Shifting money forward in time""; ""3.1.1 Simple vs. compounded rates""
- ""3.1.2 Quoted vs. effective rates: Compounding frequencies""""3.2 The time value of money: Shifting money backward in time""; ""3.2.1 Discount factors and pricing a zero-coupon bond""; ""3.2.2 Discount factors vs. interest rates""; ""3.3 Nominal vs. real interest rates""; ""3.4 The term structure of interest rates""; ""3.5 Elementary bond pricing""; ""3.5.1 Pricing coupon-bearing bonds""; ""3.5.2 Frombond prices to term structures, and vice versa""; ""3.5.3 What is a risk-free rate, anyway?""; ""3.5.4 Yield-to-maturity""; ""3.5.5 Interest rate risk""; ""3.5.6 Pricing floating rate bonds""
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- 1007928362
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- 1 online resource (783 pages)
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- one file format
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781119450290
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- System control number
- (OCoLC)1007928362
- Label
- An Introduction to Financial Markets : a Quantitative Approach
- Note
- ""3.6 A digression: Elementary investment analysis""
- Antecedent source
- file reproduced from an electronic resource
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- ""An Introduction to Financial Markets: A Quantitative Approach""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""About the Companion Website""; ""Part I Overview""; ""1 Financial Markets: Functions, Institutions, and Traded Assets""; ""1.1 What is the purpose of finance?""; ""1.2 Traded assets""; ""1.2.1 The balance sheet""; ""1.2.2 Assets vs. securities""; ""1.2.3 Equity""; ""1.2.4 Fixed income""; ""1.2.5 FOREX markets""; ""1.2.6 Derivatives""; ""1.3 Market participants and their roles""; ""1.3.1 Commercial vs. investment banks""; ""1.3.2 Investment funds and insurance companies""
- ""1.3.3 Dealers and brokers""""1.3.4 Hedgers, speculators, and arbitrageurs""; ""1.4 Market structure and trading strategies""; ""1.4.1 Primary and secondary markets""; ""1.4.2 Over-the-counter vs. exchange-traded derivatives""; ""1.4.3 Auction mechanisms and the limit order book""; ""1.4.4 Buying on margin and leverage""; ""1.4.5 Short-selling""; ""1.5 Market indexes""; ""Problems""; ""Further reading""; ""Bibliography""; ""2 Basic Problems in Quantitative Finance""; ""2.1 Portfolio optimization""; ""2.1.1 Static portfolio optimization: Meanâ#x80;#x93;variance efficiency""
- ""2.1.2 Dynamic decision-making under uncertainty: A stylized consumptionâ#x80;#x93;saving model""""2.2 Risk measurement and management""; ""2.2.1 Sensitivity of asset prices to underlying risk factors""; ""2.2.2 Risk measures in a non-normal world: Value-atrisk""; ""2.2.3 Riskmanagement: Introductory hedging examples""; ""2.2.4 Financial vs. nonfinancial risk factors""; ""2.3 The no-arbitrage principle in asset pricing""; ""2.3.1 Why do we need asset pricing models?""; ""2.3.2 Arbitrage strategies""; ""2.3.3 Pricing by no-arbitrage""; ""2.3.4 Option pricing in a binomial model""
- ""2.3.5 The limitations of the no-arbitrage principle""""2.4 The mathematics of arbitrage""; ""2.4.1 Linearity of the pricing functional and law of one price""; ""2.4.2 Dominant strategies""; ""2.4.3 No-arbitrage principle and risk-neutral measures""; ""S2.1 Multiobjective optimization""; ""S2.2 Summary of LP duality""; ""Problems""; ""Further reading""; ""Bibliography""; ""Part II Fixed-income assets""; ""3 Elementary Theory of Interest Rates""; ""3.1 The time value of money: Shifting money forward in time""; ""3.1.1 Simple vs. compounded rates""
- ""3.1.2 Quoted vs. effective rates: Compounding frequencies""""3.2 The time value of money: Shifting money backward in time""; ""3.2.1 Discount factors and pricing a zero-coupon bond""; ""3.2.2 Discount factors vs. interest rates""; ""3.3 Nominal vs. real interest rates""; ""3.4 The term structure of interest rates""; ""3.5 Elementary bond pricing""; ""3.5.1 Pricing coupon-bearing bonds""; ""3.5.2 Frombond prices to term structures, and vice versa""; ""3.5.3 What is a risk-free rate, anyway?""; ""3.5.4 Yield-to-maturity""; ""3.5.5 Interest rate risk""; ""3.5.6 Pricing floating rate bonds""
- Control code
- 1007928362
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (783 pages)
- File format
- one file format
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781119450290
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Quality assurance targets
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- unknown
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1007928362
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