Modeling Fixed-Income Securities and Interest Rate Options: Second Edition

This book teaches the basics of fixed-income securities in a way that, unlike competitive texts, requires a minimum of prerequisites. While other books focus heavily on institutional details of the bond market, all of which could easily be learned “on the job,” Jarrow is more concerned with presenting a coherent theoretical framework for understanding all basic models. His unified approach―the Heath Jarrow Morton model―under which all other models are presented as special cases, enhances understanding while avoiding repetition. The author’s pricing model is widely used in today’s securities industry.

In this revised edition, the author has added new chapters to enrich coverage, and has modified the order of chapters slightly to smooth the progression of material from simple to complex. Online material will be available with the text, replacing the diskette included in the first edition; lecture notes for instructors will be available on PowerPoint slides. MathWorks has provided a free online, limited version of the MATLAB’s financial derivatives toolbox, with which users of the book can apply the theory presented in each chapter.

Robert Jarrow is the Ronald P. and Susan E. Lynch Professor of Investment Management at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. He is also a managing director and the director of research at Kamakura Corporation. He was the 1997 IAFE/SunGard Financial Engineer of the year. He is a graduate of Duke University, Dartmouth College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and an IAFE Senior Fellow. Professor Jarrow is renowned for his pioneering work on the Heath-Jarrow-Morton model for pricing interest rate derivatives and on the Jarrow-Turnbull model for pricing credit risk. His current research interests include the pricing of exotic interest rate options and credit derivatives as well as investment management theory. His publications include four books―Options Pricing, Finance Theory, Modeling Fixed-Income Securities and Interest Rate Options (second edition), and Derivative Securities (second edition)―as well as more than eighty publications in leading finance and economic journals. Professor Jarrow is the managing editor of Mathematical Finance and a co-editor of The Journal of Derivatives. He is also an associate editor of the Review of Derivatives Research, Journal of Fixed Income, The Financial Review, The Journal of Risk, The International Journal of Bonds, and The Review of Futures Markets, and an advisory editor for Asia-Pacific Financial Markets. He serves on the boards of directors of several firms.