"This volume introduces simple mathematical models of financial markets, focussing on the problems of pricing and hedging risky financial instruments whose price evolution depends on the prices of other risky assets, such as stocks or commodities. Over the past four decades trading in these...

Cover -- The Black-Scholes Model -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Asset dynamics -- Model parameters -- 1.2 Methods of option pricing -- Risk-neutral probability approach -- The PDE approach -- 2 Strategies and risk-neutral probability -- 2.1 Finding the...