Brandimarte, Paolo <br/><br/>
An introduction to financial markets: a quantitative approach 

 - New Jersey  John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  2018 
 - xix, 758 p. 
<br/><br/>TABLE OF CONTENTS<br/>Preface xv<br/><br/>About the Companion Website xix<br/><br/>Part I Overview<br/><br/>1 Financial Markets: Functions, Institutions, and Traded Assets 1<br/><br/>1.1 What is the purpose of finance? 2<br/><br/>1.2 Traded assets 12<br/><br/>1.2.1 The balance sheet 15<br/><br/>1.2.2 Assets vs. securities 20<br/><br/>1.2.3 Equity 22<br/><br/>1.2.4 Fixed income 24<br/><br/>1.2.5 FOREX markets 27<br/><br/>1.2.6 Derivatives 29<br/><br/>1.3 Market participants and their roles 46<br/><br/>1.3.1 Commercial vs. investment banks 48<br/><br/>1.3.2 Investment funds and insurance companies 49<br/><br/>1.3.3 Dealers and brokers 51<br/><br/>1.3.4 Hedgers, speculators, and arbitrageurs 51<br/><br/>1.4 Market structure and trading strategies 53<br/><br/>1.4.1 Primary and secondary markets 53<br/><br/>1.4.2 Over-the-counter vs. exchange-traded derivatives 53<br/><br/>1.4.3 Auction mechanisms and the limit order book 53<br/><br/>1.4.4 Buying on margin and leverage 55<br/><br/>1.4.5 Short-selling 58<br/><br/>1.5 Market indexes 60<br/><br/>Problems 63<br/><br/>Further reading 65<br/><br/>Bibliography 65<br/><br/>2 Basic Problems in Quantitative Finance 67<br/><br/>2.1 Portfolio optimization 68<br/><br/>2.1.1 Static portfolio optimization: Mean–variance efficiency 70<br/><br/>2.1.2 Dynamic decision-making under uncertainty: A stylized consumption–saving model 75<br/><br/>2.2 Risk measurement and management 80<br/><br/>2.2.1 Sensitivity of asset prices to underlying risk factors 81<br/><br/>2.2.2 Risk measures in a non-normal world: Value-atrisk 84<br/><br/>2.2.3 Risk management: Introductory hedging examples 93<br/><br/>2.2.4 Financial vs. nonfinancial risk factors 100<br/><br/>2.3 The no-arbitrage principle in asset pricing 102<br/><br/>2.3.1 Why do we need asset pricing models? 103<br/><br/>2.3.2 Arbitrage strategies 104<br/><br/>2.3.3 Pricing by no-arbitrage 108<br/><br/>2.3.4 Option pricing in a binomial model 112<br/><br/>2.3.5 The limitations of the no-arbitrage principle 116<br/><br/>2.4 The mathematics of arbitrage 117<br/><br/>2.4.1 Linearity of the pricing functional and law of one price 119<br/><br/>2.4.2 Dominant strategies 120<br/><br/>2.4.3 No-arbitrage principle and risk-neutral measures 125<br/><br/>S2.1 Multiobjective optimization 129<br/><br/>S2.2 Summary of LP duality 133<br/><br/>Problems 137<br/><br/>Further reading 139<br/><br/>Bibliography 139<br/><br/>Part II Fixed income assets<br/><br/>3 Elementary Theory of Interest Rates 143<br/><br/>3.1 The time value of money: Shifting money forward in time 146<br/><br/>3.1.1 Simple vs. compounded rates 147<br/><br/>3.1.2 Quoted vs. effective rates: Compounding frequencies 150<br/><br/>3.2 The time value of money: Shifting money backward in time 153<br/><br/>3.2.1 Discount factors and pricing a zero-coupon bond 154<br/><br/>3.2.2 Discount factors vs. interest rates 158<br/><br/>3.3 Nominal vs. real interest rates 161<br/><br/>3.4 The term structure of interest rates 163<br/><br/>3.5 Elementary bond pricing 165<br/><br/>3.5.1 Pricing coupon-bearing bonds 165<br/><br/>3.5.2 From bond prices to term structures, and vice versa 168<br/><br/>3.5.3 What is a risk-free rate, anyway? 171<br/><br/>3.5.4 Yield-to-maturity 174<br/><br/>3.5.5 Interest rate risk 180<br/><br/>3.5.6 Pricing floating rate bonds 188<br/><br/>3.6 A digression: Elementary investment analysis 190<br/><br/>3.6.1 Net present value 191<br/><br/>3.6.2 Internal rate of return 192<br/><br/>3.6.3 Real options 193<br/><br/>3.7 Spot vs. forward interest rates 193<br/><br/>3.7.1 The forward and the spot rate curves 197<br/><br/>3.7.2 Discretely compounded forward rates 197<br/><br/>3.7.3 Forward discount factors 198<br/><br/>3.7.4 The expectation hypothesis 199<br/><br/>3.7.5 A word of caution: Model risk and hidden assumptions 202<br/><br/>S3.1 Proof of Equation (3.42) 203 Problems 203<br/><br/>Further reading 205<br/><br/>Bibliography 205<br/><br/>4 Forward Rate Agreements, Interest Rate Futures, and Vanilla Swaps 207<br/><br/>4.1 LIBOR and EURIBOR rates 208<br/><br/>4.2 Forward rate agreements 209<br/><br/>4.2.1 A hedging view of forward rates 210<br/><br/>4.2.2 FRAs as bond trades 214<br/><br/>4.2.3 A numerical example 215<br/><br/>4.3 Eurodollar futures 216<br/><br/>4.4 Vanilla interest rate swaps 220<br/><br/>4.4.1 Swap valuation: Approach 1 221<br/><br/>4.4.2 Swap valuation: Approach 2 223<br/><br/>4.4.3 The swap curve and the term structure 225<br/><br/>Problems 226<br/><br/>Further reading 226<br/><br/>Bibliography 226<br/><br/>5 Fixed-Income Markets 229<br/><br/>5.1 Day count conventions 230<br/><br/>5.2 Bond markets 231<br/><br/>5.2.1 Bond credit ratings 233<br/><br/>5.2.2 Quoting bond prices 233<br/><br/>5.2.3 Bonds with embedded options 235<br/><br/>5.3 Interest rate derivatives 237<br/><br/>5.3.1 Swap markets 237<br/><br/>5.3.2 Bond futures and options 238<br/><br/>5.4 The repo market and other money market instruments 239<br/><br/>5.5 Securitization 240<br/><br/>Problems 244<br/><br/>Further reading 244<br/><br/>Bibliography 244<br/><br/>6 Interest Rate Risk Management 247<br/><br/>6.1 Duration as a first-order sensitivity measure 248<br/><br/>6.1.1 Duration of fixed-coupon bonds 250<br/><br/>6.1.2 Duration of a floater 254<br/><br/>6.1.3 Dollar duration and interest rate swaps 255<br/><br/>6.2 Further interpretations of duration 257<br/><br/>6.2.1 Duration and investment horizons 258<br/><br/>6.2.2 Duration and yield volatility 260<br/><br/>6.2.3 Duration and quantile-based risk measures 260<br/><br/>6.3 Classical duration-based immunization 261<br/><br/>6.3.1 Cash flow matching 262<br/><br/>6.3.2 Duration matching 263<br/><br/>6.4 Immunization by interest rate derivatives 265<br/><br/>6.4.1 Using interest rate swaps in asset–liability management 266<br/><br/>6.5 A second-order refinement: Convexity 266<br/><br/>6.6 Multifactor models in interest rate risk management 269<br/><br/>Problems 271<br/><br/>Further reading 272<br/><br/>Bibliography 273<br/><br/>Part III Equity portfolios<br/><br/>7 Decision-Making under Uncertainty: The Static Case 277<br/><br/>7.1 Introductory examples 278<br/><br/>7.2 Should we just consider expected values of returns and monetary outcomes? 282<br/><br/>7.2.1 Formalizing static decision-making under uncertainty 283<br/><br/>7.2.2 The flaw of averages 284<br/><br/>7.3 A conceptual tool: The utility function 288<br/><br/>7.3.1 A few standard utility functions 293<br/><br/>7.3.2 Limitations of utility functions 297<br/><br/>7.4 Mean–risk models 299<br/><br/>7.4.1 Coherent risk measures 300<br/><br/>7.4.2 Standard deviation and variance as risk measures 302<br/><br/>7.4.3 Quantile-based risk measures: V@R and CV@R 303<br/><br/>7.4.4 Formulation of mean–risk models 309<br/><br/>7.5 Stochastic dominance 310<br/><br/>S7.1 Theorem proofs 314<br/><br/>S7.1.1 Proof of Theorem 7.2 314<br/><br/>S7.1.2 Proof of Theorem 7.4 315<br/><br/>Problems 315<br/><br/>Further reading 317<br/><br/>Bibliography 317<br/><br/>8 Mean–Variance Efficient Portfolios 319<br/><br/>8.1 Risk aversion and capital allocation to risky assets 320<br/><br/>8.1.1 The role of risk aversion 324<br/><br/>8.2 The mean–variance efficient frontier with risky assets 325<br/><br/>8.2.1 Diversification and portfolio risk 325<br/><br/>8.2.2 The efficient frontier in the case of two risky assets 326<br/><br/>8.2.3 The efficient frontier in the case of n risky assets 329<br/><br/>8.3 Mean–variance efficiency with a risk-free asset: The separation property 332<br/><br/>8.4 Maximizing the Sharpe ratio 337<br/><br/>8.4.1 Technical issues in Sharpe ratio maximization 340<br/><br/>8.5 Mean–variance efficiency vs. expected utility 341<br/><br/>8.6 Instability in mean–variance portfolio optimization 343<br/><br/>S8.1 The attainable set for two risky assets is a hyperbola 345<br/><br/>S8.2 Explicit solution of mean–variance optimization in matrix form 346<br/><br/>Problems 348<br/><br/>Further reading 349<br/><br/>Bibliography 349<br/><br/>9 Factor Models 351<br/><br/>9.1 Statistical issues in mean–variance portfolio optimization 352<br/><br/>9.2 The single-index model 353<br/><br/>9.2.1 Estimating a factor model 354<br/><br/>9.2.2 Portfolio optimization within the single-index model 356<br/><br/>9.3 The Treynor–Black model 358<br/><br/>9.3.1 A top-down/bottom-up optimization procedure 362<br/><br/>9.4 Multifactor models 365<br/><br/>9.5 Factor models in practice 367<br/><br/>S9.1 Proof of Equation (9.17) 368<br/><br/>Problems 369<br/><br/>Further reading 371<br/><br/>Bibliography 371<br/><br/>10 Equilibrium Models: CAPM and APT 373<br/><br/>10.1 What is an equilibrium model? 374<br/><br/>10.2 The capital asset pricing model 375<br/><br/>10.2.1 Proof of the CAPM formula 377<br/><br/>10.2.2 Interpreting CAPM 378<br/><br/>10.2.3 CAPM as a pricing formula and its practical relevance 380<br/><br/>10.3 The Black–Litterman portfolio optimization model 381<br/><br/>10.3.1 Black–Litterman model: The role of CAPM and Bayesian Statistics 382<br/><br/>10.3.2 Black-Litterman model: A numerical example 386<br/><br/>10.4 Arbitrage pricing theory 388<br/><br/>10.4.1 The intuition 389<br/><br/>10.4.2 A not-so-rigorous proof of APT 391<br/><br/>10.4.3 APT for Well-Diversified Portfolios 392<br/><br/>10.4.4 APT for Individual Assets 393<br/><br/>10.4.5 Interpreting and using APT 394<br/><br/>10.5 The behavioral critique 398<br/><br/>10.5.1 The efficient market hypothesis 400<br/><br/>10.5.2 The psychology of choice by agents with limited rationality 400<br/><br/>10.5.3 Prospect theory: The aversion to sure loss 401<br/><br/>S10.1Bayesian statistics 404<br/><br/>S10.1.1 Bayesian estimation 405<br/><br/>S10.1.2 Bayesian learning in coin flipping 407<br/><br/>S10.1.3 The expected value of a normal distribution 408<br/><br/>Problems 411<br/><br/>Further reading 413<br/><br/>Bibliography 413<br/><br/>Part IV Derivatives<br/><br/>11 Modeling Dynamic Uncertainty 417<br/><br/>11.1 Stochastic processes 420<br/><br/>11.1.1 Introductory examples 422<br/><br/>11.1.2 Marginals do not tell the whole story 428<br/><br/>11.1.3 Modeling information: Filtration generated by a stochastic process 430<br/><br/>11.1.4 Markov processes 433<br/><br/>11.1.5 Martingales 436<br/><br/>11.2 Stochastic processes in continuous time 438<br/><br/>11.2.1 A fundamental building block: Standard Wiener process 438<br/><br/>11.2.2 A generalization: Lévy processes 440<br/><br/>11.3 Stochastic differential equations 441<br/><br/>11.3.1 A deterministic differential equation: The bank account process 442<br/><br/>11.3.2 The generalized Wiener process 443<br/><br/>11.3.3 Geometric Brownian motion and Itô processes 445<br/><br/>11.4 Stochastic integration and Itô’s lemma 447<br/><br/>11.4.1 A digression: Riemann and Riemann–Stieltjes integrals 447<br/><br/>11.4.2 Stochastic integral in the sense of Itô 448<br/><br/>11.4.3 Itô’s lemma 453<br/><br/>11.5 Stochastic processes in financial modeling 457<br/><br/>11.5.1 Geometric Brownian motion 457<br/><br/>11.5.2 Generalizations 460<br/><br/>11.6 Sample path generation 462<br/><br/>11.6.1 Monte Carlo sampling 463<br/><br/>11.6.2 Scenario trees 465<br/><br/>S11.1Probability spaces, measurability, and information 468<br/><br/>Problems 476<br/><br/>Further reading 478<br/><br/>Bibliography 478<br/><br/>12 Forward and Futures Contracts 481<br/><br/>12.1 Pricing forward contracts on equity and foreign currencies 482<br/><br/>12.1.1 The spot–forward parity theorem 482<br/><br/>12.1.2 The spot–forward parity theorem with dividend income 485<br/><br/>12.1.3 Forward contracts on currencies 487<br/><br/>12.1.4 Forward contracts on commodities or energy: Contango and backwardation 489<br/><br/>12.2 Forward vs. futures contracts 490<br/><br/>12.3 Hedging with linear contracts 493<br/><br/>12.3.1 Quantity-based hedging 493<br/><br/>12.3.2 Basis risk and minimum variance hedging 494<br/><br/>12.3.3 Hedging with index futures 496<br/><br/>12.3.4 Tailing the hedge 499<br/><br/>Problems 501<br/><br/>Further reading 502<br/><br/>Bibliography 502<br/><br/>13 Option Pricing: Complete Markets 505<br/><br/>13.1 Option terminology 506<br/><br/>13.1.1 Vanilla options 507<br/><br/>13.1.2 Exotic options 508<br/><br/>13.2 Model-free price restrictions 510<br/><br/>13.2.1 Bounds on call option prices 511<br/><br/>13.2.2 Bounds on put option prices: Early exercise and continuation regions 514<br/><br/>13.2.3 Parity relationships 517<br/><br/>13.3 Binomial option pricing 519<br/><br/>13.3.1 A hedging argument 520<br/><br/>13.3.2 Lattice calibration 523<br/><br/>13.3.3 Generalization to multiple steps 524<br/><br/>13.3.4 Binomial pricing of American-style options 527<br/><br/>13.4 A continuous-time model: The Black–Scholes–Merton pricing formula 530<br/><br/>13.4.1 The delta-hedging view 532<br/><br/>13.4.2 The risk-neutral view: Feynman–Ka¡c representation theorem 539<br/><br/>13.4.3 Interpreting the factors in the BSM formula 543<br/><br/>13.5 Option price sensitivities: The Greeks 545<br/><br/>13.5.1 Delta and gamma 546<br/><br/>13.5.2 Theta 550<br/><br/>13.5.3 Relationship between delta, gamma, and theta 551<br/><br/>13.5.4 Vega 552<br/><br/>13.6 The role of volatility 553<br/><br/>13.6.1 The implied volatility surface 553<br/><br/>13.6.2 The impact of volatility on barrier options 555<br/><br/>13.7 Options on assets providing income 556<br/><br/>13.7.1 Index options 557<br/><br/>13.7.2 Currency options 558<br/><br/>13.7.3 Futures options 559<br/><br/>13.7.4 The mechanics of futures options 559<br/><br/>13.7.5 A binomial view of futures options 560<br/><br/>13.7.6 A risk-neutral view of futures options 562<br/><br/>13.8 Portfolio strategies based on options 562<br/><br/>13.8.1 Portfolio insurance and the Black Monday of 1987 563<br/><br/>13.8.2 Volatility trading 564<br/><br/>13.8.3 Dynamic vs. Static hedging 566<br/><br/>13.9 Option pricing by numerical methods 569<br/><br/>Problems 570<br/><br/>Further reading 575<br/><br/>Bibliography 576<br/><br/>14 Option Pricing: Incomplete Markets 579<br/><br/>14.1 A PDE approach to incomplete markets 581<br/><br/>14.1.1 Pricing a zero-coupon bond in a driftless world 584<br/><br/>14.2 Pricing by short-rate models 588<br/><br/>14.2.1 The Vasicek short-rate model 589<br/><br/>14.2.2 The Cox–Ingersoll–Ross short-rate model 594<br/><br/>14.3 A martingale approach to incomplete markets 595<br/><br/>14.3.1 An informal approach to martingale equivalent measures 598<br/><br/>14.3.2 Choice of numeraire: The bank account 600<br/><br/>14.3.3 Choice of numeraire: The zero-coupon bond 601<br/><br/>14.3.4 Pricing options with stochastic interest rates: Black’s model 602<br/><br/>14.3.5 Extensions 603<br/><br/>14.4 Issues in model calibration 603<br/><br/>14.4.1 Bias–variance tradeoff and regularized least-squares 604<br/><br/>14.4.2 Financial model calibration 609<br/><br/>Further reading 612<br/><br/>Bibliography 612<br/><br/>Part V Advanced optimization models<br/><br/>15 Optimization Model Building 617<br/><br/>15.1 Classification of optimization models 618<br/><br/>15.2 Linear programming 625<br/><br/>15.2.1 Cash flow matching 627<br/><br/>15.3 Quadratic programming 628<br/><br/>15.3.1 Maximizing the Sharpe ratio 629<br/><br/>15.3.2 Quadratically constrained quadratic programming 631<br/><br/>15.4 Integer programming 632<br/><br/>15.4.1 A MIQP model to minimize TEV under a cardinality constraint 634<br/><br/>15.4.2 Good MILP model building: The role of tight model formulations 636<br/><br/>15.5 Conic optimization 642<br/><br/>15.5.1 Convex cones 644<br/><br/>15.5.2 Second-order cone programming 650<br/><br/>15.5.3 Semidefinite programming 653<br/><br/>15.6 Stochastic optimization 655<br/><br/>15.6.1 Chance-constrained LP models 656<br/><br/>15.6.2 Two-stage stochastic linear programming with recourse 657<br/><br/>15.6.3 Multistage stochastic linear programming with recourse 663<br/><br/>15.6.4 Scenario generation and stability in stochastic programming 670<br/><br/>15.7 Stochastic dynamic programming 675<br/><br/>15.7.1 The dynamic programming principle 676<br/><br/>15.7.2 Solving Bellman’s equation: The three curses of dimensionality 679<br/><br/>15.7.3 Application to pricing options with early exercise features 680<br/><br/>15.8 Decision rules for multistage SLPs 682<br/><br/>15.9 Worst-case robust models 686<br/><br/>15.9.1 Uncertain LPs: Polyhedral uncertainty 689<br/><br/>15.9.2 Uncertain LPs: Ellipsoidal uncertainty 690<br/><br/>15.10Nonlinear programming models in finance 691<br/><br/>15.10.1 Fixed-mix asset allocation 692<br/><br/>Problems 693<br/><br/>Further reading 695<br/><br/>Bibliography 696<br/><br/>16 Optimization Model Solving 699<br/><br/>16.1 Local methods for nonlinear programming 700<br/><br/>16.1.1 Unconstrained nonlinear programming 700<br/><br/>16.1.2 Penalty function methods 703<br/><br/>16.1.3 Lagrange multipliers and constraint qualification conditions 707<br/><br/>16.1.4 Duality theory 713<br/><br/>16.2 Global methods for nonlinear programming 715<br/><br/>16.2.1 Genetic algorithms 716<br/><br/>16.2.2 Particle swarm optimization 717<br/><br/>16.3 Linear programming 719<br/><br/>16.3.1 The simplex method 720<br/><br/>16.3.2 Duality in linear programming 723<br/><br/>16.3.3 Interior-point methods: Primal-dual barrier method for LP 726<br/><br/>16.4 Conic duality and interior-point methods 728<br/><br/>16.4.1 Conic duality 728<br/><br/>16.4.2 Interior-point methods for SOCP and SDP 731<br/><br/>16.5 Branch-and-bound methods for integer programming 732<br/><br/>16.5.1 A matheuristic approach: Fix-and-relax 735<br/><br/>16.6 Optimization software 736<br/><br/>16.6.1 Solvers 737<br/><br/>16.6.2 Interfacing through imperative programming languages 738<br/><br/>16.6.3 Interfacing through non-imperative algebraic languages 738<br/><br/>16.6.4 Additional interfaces 739<br/><br/>Problems 739<br/><br/>Further reading 740<br/><br/>Bibliography 741<br/><br/>Index 743 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781118014776 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Finance--Mathematical models<br/>Financial engineering<br/>Business enterprises--Finance
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>332.644  / BRA