Three new chapters, numerous additions to existing chapters, and an expanded collection of questions and exercises make this third edition of Principles of Financial Engineering essential reading. Between defining swaps on its first page and presenting a case study on its last, Robert Kosowski and Salih Neftci's introduction to financial engineering shows readers how to create financial assets in static and dynamic environments. Poised among intuition, actual events, and financial mathematics, this book can be used to solve problems in risk management, taxation, regulation, and above all, pricing.
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
CHAPTER 2 Institutional Aspects of Derivatives Markets - An Introduction to Some Concepts and Definitions
CHAPTER 3 Cash Flow Engineering, Interest Rate Forwards and Futures
CHAPTER 4 Introduction to Swap Engineering
CHAPTER 5 Repo Market Strategies in Financial Engineering
CHAPTER 6 Cash Flow Engineering and FX Contracts
CHAPTER 7 Cash Flow Engineering and Alternative Classes (Commodities and Hedge Funds)
CHAPTER 8 Dynamic Replication Methods and Synthetics
CHAPTER 9 Mechanics of Options
CHAPTER 10 Engineering Convexity Positions
CHAPTER 11 Options Engineering with Applications
CHAPTER 12 Pricing Tools in Financial Engineering
CHAPTER 13 Some Applications of the Fundamental Theorem
CHAPTER 14 Fixed-Income Engineering
CHAPTER 15 Tools for Volatility Engineering, Volatility Swaps, and Volatility Trading
CHAPTER 16 Correlation as an Asset Class and the Smile
CHAPTER 17 Caps/Floors and Swaptions with an Application to Mortgages
CHAPTER 18 Engineering of Equity Instruments: Pricing and Replication
CHAPTER 19 Credit Markets: CDS Engineering
CHAPTER 20 Essentials of Structured Product Engineering
CHAPTER 21 Essentials of Credit Structured Product Engineering
CHAPTER 22 Default Correlation Pricing and Trading
CHAPTER 23 Principal Protection Techniques
CHAPTER 24 Counter-Party Risk, Multiple Curves, CVA, DVA, FVA