Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA - Hardcover

Mary Jackson; Mike Staunton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471499226 ISBN 13: 9780471499220

Publisher: Wiley, 2001

Synopsis

This new and unique book demonstrates that Excel and VBA can play an important role in the explanation and implementation of numerical methods across finance. Advanced Modelling in Finance provides a comprehensive look at equities, options on equities and options on bonds from the early 1950s to the late 1990s.

The book adopts a step-by-step approach to understanding the more sophisticated aspects of Excel macros and VBA programming, showing how these programming techniques can be used to model and manipulate financial data, as applied to equities, bonds and options. The book is essential for financial practitioners who need to develop their financial modelling skill sets as there is an increase in the need to analyse and develop ever more complex 'what if' scenarios.

• Specifically applies Excel and VBA to the financial markets
• Packaged with a CD containing the software from the examples throughout the book

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

About this title

About the Author

MARY JACKSON and MIKE STAUNTON have worked together teaching spreadsheet modelling to both graduate students and practitioners since 1985.

MARY JACKSON was Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences at London Business School. She is author of three previous books for John Wiley & Sons: Understanding Expert Systems (1992), Advanced Spreadsheet Modelling (1988) and Creative Modelling (1985).

MIKE STAUNTON is Visiting Lecturer in Numerical Methods at City University Business School and Director of the London Share Price Datbase at London Business School. He is coauthor, with Elroy Dimson and Paul Marsh, of Millennium Book II: 101 Years of Investment Returns (2001) and The Millennium Book: A Century of Investment Returns (2000).

From the Back Cover

Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA

Mary Jackson and Mike Staunton

This book will appeal to both graduate students and practitioners. Students will value the Excel spreadsheets allowing them to develop their knowledge of modelling in finance, using a step-by-step approach accompanied by explanations using elementary mathematical statistics and probability. Practitioners will value the VBA functions as a source of up-to-date and efficient programs that can be easily used from Excel.

Standard material rovered includes:

• portfolio theory and efficient frontiers
• the Capital Asset Pricing Model, beta and variance-covariance matrices
• performance measurement
• the Black-Scholes option pricing formula
• binomial trees for options on equities and bonds
• Monte Carlo simulation
• bond yield-to-maturity, duration and convexity
• term structure models from Vasicek and Cox, Ingersoll and Ross

Advanced topics covered include:

• Value-at-Risk
• style analysis
• an improved binomial tree (Leisen & Reimer)
• quasi Monte Carlo simulation
• volatility smiles
• Black, Derman & Toy trees
• normal interest rate trees

From the Inside Flap

Advanced modelling in finance using Excel and VBA

This unique book demonstrates that Excel and VBA can play an important role in the explanation and implementation of numerical methods across finance. It takes a comprehensive look at equities, options on equities and options on bonds from the early 1950s to the late 1990s. Each area contains both standard material and more advanced topics.

All models are developed fully in both spreadsheets, bringing clarity to teaching in finance, and user-defined functions in VBA, giving a ready-made library of portable functions that can be used in Excel.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471499226
• ISBN 13: 9780471499220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288