Description : Financial Modelling with Jump Processes demonstrates that this is not so. It provides a self-contained overview of the theoretical, numerical, and empirical aspects of using jump processes in financial modeling, and does so in terms well within the grasp of nonspecialists. With clear-sighted explanations, the authors motivate the use of the various mathematical tools used in the modelling process, and while giving an intuitive understanding of proofs, provide precise mathematical statements of the results. They illustrate the mathematical concepts with many numerical and empirical examples and provide the details of numerical implementation of pricing and calibration algorithms. This book clearly shows that the concepts and tools necessary for understanding and implementing these models can be much more accessible and intuitive that those involved in the Black Scholes and diffusion models.

Description : "armes financières de destruction massive " s'insurgeait récemment le célèbre investisseur milliardaire américain Warren Buffet. Dans le même temps, Alan Greenspan, Chairman de la Fédéral Réserve, la banque centrale des États-Unis, se félicitait de l'éclosion de cette nouvelle classe d'instruments financiers qui aurait contribué, selon lui, à renforcer la stabilité des établissements bancaires. En focalisant le débat sur les dérivés de crédit, ces observateurs éminents des marchés de capitaux ont mis en lumière l'une de leurs évolutions les plus fondamentales au cours de la dernière décennie. Cet ouvrage procède à un tour d'horizon complet du marché des produits dérivés de crédit. Il aborde le contexte de création de ces instruments, leurs mécanismes de fonctionnement et leurs principales applications.

Description : Over the past decade, credit derivatives have emerged as the key financial innovation in global capital markets. At end 2004, the market size hit $6.4 billion (in notional amounts) from virtually nothing in 1995. This rise has been spurred by the imperative for banks to better manage their risks, not least credit risks, and the appetite shown by institutional investors and hedge funds for innovative, high yielding structured investment products. As a result, growth in collateralized debt obligations and other second-generation products, such as credit indices, is currently phenomenal. It is enabled by the standardization and increased liquidity in credit default swaps – the building block of the credit derivatives market.

Written by market practitioners and specialists, this book covers the fundamentals of the credit derivatives and structured credit market, including in-depth product descriptions, analysis of real transactions, market overview, pricing models, banks business models. It is recommended reading for students in business schools and financial courses, academics, and professionals working in investment and asset management, banking, corporate treasury and the capital markets.