"The Volatility Smile presents a unified treatment of the Black-Scholes-Merton model and the more advanced models that have replaced it. It is also a book about the principles of financial valuation and how to apply them."

"Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History" offers a new framework for understanding globalisation over the past century. Through a detailed analysis of ports, shipping and trading companies whose networks spanned the world, Michael B. Miller shows how a European maritime...

Cover -- Europe and the Maritime World -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE NETWORKS -- 1 Ports -- NETWORKS -- MAIN PORTS -- Hamburg, Rotterdam, and Antwerp -- Hamburg -- Rotterdam -- Antwerp --...

Intro -- The Volatility Smile -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- 1 Overview -- Introduction -- The Black-Scholes-Merton Model and Its Discontents -- A Quick Look at the Implied Volatility Smile -- No-Nonsense Financial Modeling -- About Theorems and Laws -- On...