Risk Management and Derivatives - Hardcover

Stulz, Rene M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0538861010 ISBN 13: 9780538861014

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2002

Synopsis

Designed specifically for managers, this groundbreaking book emphasizes how to use derivatives to maximize firm value through risk management - instead of just using derivatives to speculate. It presents the crucial tools necessary for executives and derivatives players to effectively hedge with derivatives in order to protect firms from losses. Coverage includes all the pricing tools needed to use derivatives seriously, as well as the tools to evaluate how to use a particular derivative to reduce risk. Risk Management and Derivatives takes a general approach to derivatives, illustrating how to use existing derivatives for risk management - as well as derivatives that do not yet exist.

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About the Author

Rene M. Stulz is the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics at the Ohio State University and the Director of the Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics at the Ohio State University. He previously taught at the University of Rochester and held visiting appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago. He was a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School for the 1996-1997 academic year. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and is a Fellow of the Financial Management Association. Rene M. Stulz was editor of the Journal of Finance for twelve years and a co-editor of the Journal of Financial Economics for five years. He edits the corporate finance and banking abstracts for the Social Sciences Research Network. He is also on the editorial board of several academic and practitioner journals. Further, he is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Review

1. Introduction to Derivatives. 2. Investors, Derivatives and Risk Management. 3. Creating value with risk management. 4. An integrated approach to risk management. 5. Forward and futures contracts. 6. Hedging exposures with forward and futures contracts. 7. Optimal hedges for the real world. 8. Identifying and managing cash flow exposures. 9. Hedging with options. 10. Option pricing, dynamic hedging, and the binomial model. 11. The Black-Scholes model. 12. Risk measurement and risk management with nonlinear payoffs. 13. Options on bonds and interest rates. 14. The demand and supply for derivative products. 15. Swaps. 16. Using Exotic Options. 17. Credit risks and credit derivatives. 18. The practice of risk management: Recent and future developments.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0538861010
• ISBN 13: 9780538861014
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 792