The Volatility Smile: An Introduction for Students and Practitioners by Derman, Emanuel

The Volatility Smile: An Introduction for Students and Practitioners

The Volatility Smile The Black-Scholes-Merton option model was the greatest innovation of 20th century finance, and remains...
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The Volatility Smile: An Introduction for Students and Practitioners by Derman, Emanuel

The Volatility Smile: An Introduction for Students and Practitioners

$224.63

The Volatility Smile: An Introduction for Students and Practitioners

$224.63
Author: Emanuel Derman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

The Volatility Smile

The Black-Scholes-Merton option model was the greatest innovation of 20th century finance, and remains the most widely applied theory in all of finance. Despite this success, the model is fundamentally at odds with the observed behavior of option markets: a graph of implied volatilities against strike will typically display a curve or skew, which practitioners refer to as the smile, and which the model cannot explain. Option valuation is not a solved problem, and the past forty years have witnessed an abundance of new models that try to reconcile theory with markets.

The Volatility Smile presents a unified treatment of the Black-Scholes-Merton model and the more advanced models that have replaced it. It is also a book about the principles of financial valuation and how to apply them. Celebrated author and quant Emanuel Derman and Michael B. Miller explain not just the mathematics but the ideas behind the models. By examining the foundations, the implementation, and the pros and cons of various models, and by carefully exploring their derivations and their assumptions, readers will learn not only how to handle the volatility smile but how to evaluate and build their own financial models.

Topics covered include:

  • The principles of valuation
  • Static and dynamic replication
  • The Black-Scholes-Merton model
  • Hedging strategies
  • Transaction costs
  • The behavior of the volatility smile
  • Implied distributions
  • Local volatility models
  • Stochastic volatility models
  • Jump-diffusion models

The first half of the book, Chapters 1 through 13, can serve as a standalone textbook for a course on option valuation and the Black-Scholes-Merton model, presenting the principles of financial modeling, several derivations of the model, and a detailed discussion of how it is used in practice. The second half focuses on the behavior of the volatility smile, and, in conjunction with the first half, can be used for as the basis for a more advanced course.



Author: Emanuel Derman, Michael B. Miller
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 09/06/2016
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9781118959169

About the Author

EMANUEL DERMAN is a professor at Columbia University, where he directs its financial engineering program. He is the author of My Life as a Quant and Models.Behaving.Badly.

MICHAEL B. MILLER is the founder and CEO of Northstar Risk Corp. He is the author of Mathematics and Statistics for Financial Risk Management, Second Edition.




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