The current world financial scene indicates at an intertwined and interdependent relationship between financial market activity and economic health. This book explains how the economic messages delivered by the dynamic evolution of financial asset returns are strongly related to option prices....

Finanzmathematische Grundlagen -- Eigenschaften und Bewertung von Derivaten -- Der Einsatz von Derivaten -- Hedging mit Derivaten -- Derivate zur Optimierung der Performance -- Risikosteuerung -- Besondere Herausforderungen beim Derivateeinsatz -- Derivate als Informationsquelle.

This book gives a comprehensive introduction to the modeling of financial derivatives, covering all major asset classes (equities, commodities, interest rates and foreign exchange) and stretching from Black and Scholes' lognormal modeling to current-day research on skew and smile models. The...

Part I The Fundamentals of Derivative Security Pricing -- 1 The Stock Option Problem -- 2 Stochastic Processes for Asset Price Modelling -- 3 An Initial Attempt at Pricing an Option -- 4 The Stochastic Differential Equation -- 5 Manipulating Stochastic Differential Equations and Stochastic...