Advanced Derivatives Pricing and Risk Management 先进的衍生产品定价和风险管理.pdf

Preface This book originated in part from lecture notes we developed while teaching courses in financial mathematics in the Master of Mathematical Finance Program at the University of Toronto during the years from 1998 to 2003. We were confronted with the challenge of teaching a varied set of finance topics, ranging from derivative pricing to risk management, while developing the necessary notions in probability theory, stochastic calculus, statistics, and numerical analysis and while having the students acquire practical computer laboratory experience in the implementation of financial models. The amount of material to be covered spans a daunting number of topics. The leading motives are recent discoveries in derivatives research, whose comprehension requires an array of applied mathematical techniques tradi- tionally taught in a variety of different graduate and senior undergraduate courses, often not included in the realm of traditional finance education. Our choice was to teach all the relevant topics in the context of financial engineering and mathematical finance while delegating more systematic treatments of the supporting disciplines, such as probability, statistics, numerical analysis, and financial markets and institutions, to parallel courses. Our project turned from a challenge into an interesting and rewarding teaching experience. We discovered that prob- ability and stochastic calculus, when presented in the context of derivative pricing, are easier to teach than we had anticipated. Most students find financial concepts and situations helpful to develop an intuition and understanding of the mathematics. A formal course in probability running in parallel introduced the students to the mathematical theory of st