"A clear, practical guide to working effectively with derivative securities products Derivatives Essentials is an accessible, yet detailed guide to derivative securities. With an emphasis on mechanisms over formulas, this book promotes a greater understanding of the topic in a straightforward...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Part One: Introduction to Forwards, Futures, and Options -- Chapter 1: Forwards and Futures -- Introduction -- 1.1 Forward contract characteristics -- 1.2 Long forward payoff -- 1.3 Long...

This paper utilizes a new data set from AllianceBernstein that, unlike other corporate governance data, has country-level and monthly-updated firm-level governance ratings for 22 emerging markets countries for almost a five year period. With these data we examine the relationship of firm-level...

This paper utilizes a new data set from AllianceBernstein that, unlike other corporate governance data, has monthly-updated firm-level governance ratings for 21 emerging markets countries for almost a five year period. With these unique data, we examine how changes in corporate governance...