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Description of CREDIT DERIVATIVES HANDBOOK: Global Perspectives, Innovations, and Market Drivers (McGraw-Hill Finance & Investing)
The world’s leading financial thinkers share their insights into the latest developments in credit derivatives
In The Credit Derivatives Handbook, some of the world's sharpest financial and legal minds come together to discuss how credit derivatives have evolved from tools restricted to the banking industry into flexible and customizable instruments used by investors of all kinds.
You will come away with the knowledge and insight needed to measure and value risk, as well as the ability to put credit derivatives to work. Over fifteen contributors provide in-depth analyses of subjects in their respective areas of expertise, such as:
Key products, applications, and typical trades, hedging and credit structuring
Pricing of credit default swaps and synthetic CDOs
Design of synthetic CDOs
Copula models, with illustrative examples
Credit derivatives in investment portfolios
Opportunities for structuring credit derivatives in accordance with Islamic finance
Comprehensive in scope but executed in meticulous detail, The Credit Derivatives Handbook provides a complete, global perspective of what the editors consider “one of the most important financial innovations of recent times.”
From the Back Cover
The Inside Track on the Most Innovative Financial Instrument Today
“[The Credit Derivatives Handbook] presents a rigorous examination of the design, pricing, and use of credit derivatives. It combines an impressive breath of topics with in-depth analysis of individual topics."
-Paul Brockman, Matteson Professor of Financial Services, Department of Finance
, University of Missouri-Columbia
"This handbook . . . will be useful to anyone requiring a comprehensive review and introduction to most aspects of this exciting new area . . ."
-David E. Allen, Professor of Finance at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
“An impressive survey of current research in credit derivatives by academics and practitioners from around the world. It will be useful to those working outside the area who wish to gain a greater understanding of this topic and to those within the field who want to learn more about state-of-the-art research in credit derivatives.”
-Burt Porter, Professor of Finance, Iowa State University College of Business
“Greg and Paul have struck well the delicate balance between theoretical and empirical papers and also managed to include geographies beyond the United States.”
-Dr. Viral Acharya, Professor of Finance and Academic Director of Private Equity Institute, London Business School
Authors:
Hayette GATFAOUI
JEL classification:
C22 G12
Keywords:
Correlation, credit risk, regression, market risk
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