Preface to the Second Edition |
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1 The Simplest Model of Financial Markets |
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1.1 One-Period Finite State Model |
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1.2 Securities and Their Payoffs |
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1.3 Securities as Vectors |
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1.4 Operations on Securities |
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1.5 The Matrix as a Collection of Securities |
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1.7 Matrix Multiplication and Portfolios |
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1.8 Systems of Equations and Hedging |
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1.9 Linear Independence and Redundant Securities |
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1.10 The Structure of the Marketed Subspace |
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1.11 The Identity Matrix and Arrow-Debreu Securities |
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1.13 Inverse Matrix and Replicating Portfolios |
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1.14 Complete Market Hedging Formula |
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2 Arbitrage and Pricing in the One-Period Model |
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2.1 Hedging with Redundant Securities and Incomplete Market |
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2.2 Finding the Best Approximate Hedge |
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2.3 Minimizing the Expected Squared Replication Error |
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2.4 Numerical Stability of Least Squares |
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2.5 Asset Prices, Returns and Portfolio Units |
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2.8 State Prices and the Arbitrage Theorem |
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2.9 State Prices and Asset Returns |
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2.10 Risk-Neutral Probabilities |
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2.11 State Prices and No-Arbitrage Pricing |
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2.12 Asset Pricing Duality |
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2.15 Appendix: Least Squares with QR Decomposition |
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3 Risk and Return in the One-Period Model |
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3.2 Expected Utility Maximization |
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3.3 The Existence of Optimal Portfolios |
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3.4 Reporting Expected Utility in Terms of Money |
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3.5 Normalized Utility and Investment Potential |
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3.8 Arbitrage-Adjusted Sharpe Ratio |
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3.9 The Importance of Arbitrage Adjustment |
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3.10 Portfolio Choice with Near-Arbitrage Opportunities |
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4 Numerical Techniques for Optimal Portfolio Selection in Incomplete Markets |
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4.1 Sensitivity Analysis of Portfolio Decisions with the CRRA Utility |
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4.2 Newton's Algorithm for Optimal Investment with CRRA Utility |
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4.3 Optimal CRRA Investment Using Empirical Return Distribution |
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4.4 HARA Portfolio Optimizer |
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4.5 HARA Portfolio Optimization with Several Risky Assets |
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4.6 Quadratic Utility Maximization with Multiple Assets |
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5 Pricing in Dynamically Complete Markets |
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5.1 Options and Portfolio Insurance |
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5.3 Dynamic Replicating Trading Strategy |
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5.4 Risk-Neutral Probabilities in a Multi-Period Model |
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5.5 The Law of Iterated Expectations |
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6 Towards Continuous Time |
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6.1 IID Returns, and the Term Structure of Volatility |
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6.2 Towards Brownian Motion |
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6.3 Towards a Poisson Jump Process |
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6.4 Central Limit Theorem and Infinitely Divisible Distributions |
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7 Fast Fourier Transform |
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7.1 Introduction to Complex Numbers and the Fourier Transform |
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7.2 Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) |
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7.3 Fourier Transforms in Finance |
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7.4 Fast Pricing via the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) |
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7.5 Further Applications of FFTs in Finance |
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8 Information Management |
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8.1 Information: Too Much of a Good Thing? |
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8.2 Model-Independent Properties of Conditional Expectation |
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8.5 Appendix: Probability Space |
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9 Martingales and Change of Measure in Finance |
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9.1 Discounted Asset Prices Are Martingales |
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9.2 Dynamic Arbitrage Theorem |
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9.4 Dynamic Optimal Portfolio Selection in a Complete Market |
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10 Brownian Motion and Ito Formulae |
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10.1 Continuous-Time Brownian Motion |
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10.2 Stochastic Integration and Ito Processes |
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10.3 Important BO Processes |
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10.4 Function of a Stochastic Process: the Ito Formula |
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10.5 Applications of the Ito Formula |
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10.6 Multivariate IV) Formula |
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10.7 Ito Processes as Martingales |
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10.8 Appendix: Proof of the BO Formula |
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11 Continuous-Time Finance |
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11.1 Summary of Useful Results |
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11.2 Risk-Neutral Pricing |
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11.3 The Girsanov Theorem |
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11.4 Risk-Neutral Pricing and Absence of Arbitrage |
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11.5 Automatic Generation of PDEs and the Feynman-Kac Formula |
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11.6 Overview of Numerical Methods |
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11.9 Appendix: Decomposition of Asset Returns into Uncon-elated Components |
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12 Finite-Difference Methods |
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12.1 Interpretation of PDEs |
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12.4 Markov Chains and Local Consistency |
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12.5 Improving Convergence by Richardson's Extrapolation |
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12.6 Oscillatory Convergence Due to Grid Positioning |
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12.7 Fully Implicit Scheme |
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12.8 Crank-Nicolson Scheme |
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12.11 Appendix: Efficient Gaussian Elimination for Tridiagonal Matrices |
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12.12 Appendix: Richardson's Extrapolation |
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13 Dynamic Option Hedging and Pricing in Incomplete Markets |
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13.1 The Risk in Option Hedging Strategies |
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13.2 Incomplete Market Option Price Bounds |
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13.3 Towards Continuous Time |
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13.4 Derivation of Optimal Hedging Strategy |
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13.7 Appendix: Expected Squared Hedging Error in the Black-Scholes Model |
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Appendix A Calculus |
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A.3 Real Function of Several Real Variables |
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A.4 Power Series Approximations |
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Appendix B Probability |
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B.2 Conditional Probability |
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B.3 Marginal and Joint Distribution |
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B.4 Stochastic Independence |
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B.6 Properties of Expectation |
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B.8 Covariance and Correlation |
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B.9 Continuous Random Variables |
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B.12 Relationships among Standard Statistical Distributions |
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References |
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Index |
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