Table Of Contents:

Derivative Background 1(33)

Financial Markets and Instruments 2(6)

Derivative Instruments 2(2)

Underlying securities 4(1)

Markets 5(1)

Types of Traders 6(1)

Modelling Assumptions 7(1)

Arbitrage 8(3)

Arbitrage Relationships 11(9)

Fundamental Determinants of Option Values 11(2)

The Put-Call Parity 13(3)

Arbitrage Bounds 16(4)

Single-Period Market Models 20(13)

Exercises 30(3)

Probability Background 33(34)

Measure 34(4)

Integral 38(3)

Probability 41(6)

Equivalent Measures and Radon-Nikodym Derivatives 47(1)

Conditional Expectations 48(3)

Properties of Conditional Expectation 51(2)

Modes of Convergence 53(3)

Convolution and Characteristic Functions 56(4)

The Central Limit Theorem 60(7)

Exercises 63(4)

Stochastic Processes in Discrete Time 67(16)

Information and Filtrations 67(1)

Discrete-Parameter Stochastic Processes 68(2)

Discrete-Parameter Martingales 70(3)

Definition and Simple Properties 70(2)

Martingale Convergence 72(1)

Doob Decomposition 73(1)

Martingale Transforms 73(2)

Stopping Times and Optional Stopping 75(3)

The Snell Envelope 78(5)

Exercises 80(3)

Mathematical Finance in Discrete Time 83(50)

The Model 83(4)

Existence of Equivalent Martingale Measures 87(9)

The No-Arbitrage Condition 87(6)

Risk-Neutral Pricing 93(3)

Complete Markets 96(4)

Risk-Neutral Valuation 100(3)

The Cox-Ross Rubinstein Model 103(8)

Model Structure 103(2)

Risk-Neutral Pricing 105(3)

Hedging 108(2)

Comparison With the General Arbitrage Bounds 110(1)

Binomial Approximations 111(10)

Model Structure 112(1)

The Black-Scholes Option Pricing Formula 113(5)

Further Limiting Models 118(3)

Multifactor Models 121(2)

Extended Binomial Model 121(1)

Multinomial Models 122(1)

Further Contingent Claim Valuation in Discrete Time 123(10)

American Options 123(3)

Barrier Options 126(1)

Lookback Options 127(1)

A Three-Period Example 128(2)

Exercises 130(3)

Stochastic Processes in Continuous Time 133(38)

Filtrations; Finite-Dimensional Distributions 133(1)

Classes of Processes 134(4)

Brownian Motion 138(3)

Quadratic Variation of Brownian Motion 141(3)

Stochastic Integrals; Ito Calculus 144(5)

Ito's Lemma 149(5)

Geometric Brownian Motion 152(2)

Stochastic Differential Equations 154(3)

Stochastic Calculus for Black-Scholes Models 157(4)

Weak Convergence of Stochastic Processes 161(10)

The Spaces Cd and Dd 161(1)

Definition and Motivation 162(2)

Basic Theorems of Weak Convergence 164(1)

Weak Convergence Results for Stochastic Integrals 165(2)

Exercises 167(4)

Mathematical Finance in Continuous Time 171(58)

Continuous-time Financial Market Models 171(13)

The Financial Market Model 171(3)

Equivalent Martingale Measures 174(3)

Risk-neutral Pricing 177(3)

Changes of Numeraire 180(4)

The Generalised Black-Scholes Model 184(15)

The Model 184(8)

Pricing and Hedging Contingent Claims 192(3)

The Greeks 195(2)

Volatility 197(2)

Further contingent claim valuation 199(12)

American Options 199(3)

Asian Options 202(2)

Barrier Options 204(3)

Lookback Options 207(3)

Binary Options 210(1)

Discrete- vs. Continuous-Time Models 211(10)

Convergence Reconsidered 211(1)

Finite Market Approximations 212(2)

Examples of Finite Market Approximations 214(7)

Further Applications 221(8)

Futures Markets 221(3)

Currency Markets 224(2)

Exercises 226(3)

Incomplete Markets 229(16)

Pricing in Incomplete Markets 229(6)

A General Option Pricing Formula 229(3)

The Esscher Measure 232(3)

Hedging in Incomplete Markets 235(6)

Variance Minimising Hedging 235(4)

Risk-Minimising Hedging 239(2)

Stochastic Volatility Models 241(4)

Interest Rate Theory 245(32)

The Bond Market 246(8)

The Term Structure of Interest Rates 246(1)

Mathematical Modelling 247(5)

Bond Pricing 252(2)

Short Rate Models 254(8)

The Term Structure Equation 255(1)

Martingale Modelling 256(4)

Parameter Estimation 260(2)

Heath-Jarrow-Morton Methodology 262(6)

The Heath-Jarrow-Morton Model Class 262(3)

Forward Risk-Neutral Martingale Measures 265(2)

Completeness 267(1)

Pricing and Hedging Contingent Claims 268(9)

Short Rate Models 268(1)

Gaussian HJM Framework 269(2)

Swaps 271(1)

Caps 272(2)

Exercises 274(3)
A. Hilbert Space 277(2)
B. Projections and Conditional Expectations 279(2)
C. The Separating Hyperplane Theorem 281(2)
Bibliography 283(10)
Index 293