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Option Pricing by Paul Wilmott,Sam Howison
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    • Product code: 0991
    • ISBN: 0952208202, ISBN13: 9780952208204, 457 pages, hardback
      Published by Oxford Financial Press on 1993 , 1st
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    Description of Option Pricing

    This book is a comprehensive and readable description of the applications of mathematics to option pricing. It covers the subject from basic modelling to sophisticated analytical and numerical treatments of the most up-to-date derivative products.

    Special features of the book include:

    - The financial foundations of option pricing models. Clear descriptions of their mathematical formulation

    - The basic mathematical tools necessary for analysis of the Black-Scholes equation

    - European American exercise features in the unifying framework of complementary problems and variational inequalities

    - Detailed models and analysis of exotic and path-dependent options, including compound options, Asians, lookbacks and barriers

    - Models for transaction costs

    - Interest rate derivative products: bonds, bond options, convertible bonds, swaps, caps and floors

    - First exit times and moving averages

    - Practical treatment of accurate numerical methods for option pricing models

    Contents of Option Pricing

    1. An Introduction to Options and Markets
    2. The Random Nature of the Stock Market
    3. Basic Option Theory
    4. Partial Differential Equations
    5. Explicit Solutions of the Diffusion Equation in Fixed Domains
    6. American Options as Free Boundary Problems
    7. American Options as Variational Inequalities
    8. Dividends and Time-dependent Parameters
    9. Exotic Options
    10. Barrier Options
    11. Asian Options
    12. Lookback Options
    13. Options with Transaction Costs
    14. Interest Rate Derivative Products
    15. Convertible Bonds
    16. Numerical Methods
    17. Finite-difference Approximations
    18. The Explicit Finite-difference Method
    19. Implicit Finite-difference Methods
    20. Methods for Free Boundary Problems
    21. Methods for American Options
    22. Methods for Exotic Options

    Appendix a. The Probability Density Function
    Appendix b. First Exit Times
    Appendix c. Lattice Methods
    Appendix d. Finite-element Methods
    Appendix e. Summary of Differential Equations
    Appendix f. Bibliography


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