Preface Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview 1.1 Motivation for this Book 1.2 What is a Derivative? 1.3 Options Versus Forwards, Futures, and Swaps 1.4 Size and Scope of the Financial Derivatives Markets 1.5 Outline and Features of the Book 1.6 Final Thoughts and Preview 1.7 Questions and Problems Chapter 2: Boundaries, Limits, and Conditions on Option Prices 2.

1 Setup, Definitions, and Arbitrage 2.2 Absolute Minimum and Maximum Values 2.3 The Value of an American Option Relative to the Value of a European Option 2.4 The Value of an Option at Expiration 2.5 The Lower Bounds of European and American Options and the Optimality of Early Exercise 2.6 Differences in Option Values by Exercise Price 2.7 The Effect of Differences in Time to Expiration 2.8 The Convexity Rule 2.

9 Put-Call Parity 2.10 The Effect of Interest Rates on Option Prices 2.11 The Effect of Volatility on Option Prices 2.12 The Building Blocks of European Options 2.13 Recap and Preview 2.14 Questions and Problems Chapter 3: Elementary Review of Mathematics for Finance 3.1 Summation Notation 3.2 Product Notation 3.

3 Logarithms and Exponentials 3.4 Series Formulas 3.5 Calculus Derivatives 3.6 Integration 3.7 Differential Equations 3.8 Recap and Preview 3.9 Questions and Problems Chapter 4: Elementary Review of Probability for Finance 4.1 Marginal, Conditional, and Joint Probabilities 4.

2 Expectations, Variances, and Covariances of Discrete Random Variables 4.3 Continuous Random Variables 4.4 Some General Results in Probability Theory 4.5 Technical Introduction to Common Probability Distributions Used in Finance 4.6 Recap and Preview 4.7 Questions and Problems Chapter 5: Financial Applications of Probability Distributions 5.1 The Univariate Normal Probability Distribution 5.2 Contrasting the Normal with the Lognormal Probability Distribution 5.

3 Bivariate Normal Probability Distribution 5.4 The Bivariate Lognormal Probability Distribution 5.5 Recap and Preview Appendix 5A An Excel Routine for the Bivariate Normal Probability 5.6 Questions and Problems Chapter 6: Basic Concepts in Valuing Risky Assets and Derivatives 6.1 Valuing Risky Assets 6.2 Risk Neutral Pricing in Discrete Time 6.3 Identical Assets and the Law of One Price 6.4 Derivative Contracts 6.

5 A First Look at Valuing Options 6.6 A World of Risk Averse and Risk Neutral Investors 6.7 Pricing Options Under Risk Aversion 6.8 Recap and Preview 6.9 Questions and Problems Chapter 7: The Binomial Model 7.1 The One-Period Binomial Model for Calls 7.2 The One-Period Binomial Model for Puts 7.3 Arbitraging Price Discrepancies 7.

4 The Multiperiod Model 7.5 American Options and Early Exercise in the Binomial Framework 7.6 Dividends and Recombination 7.7 Path Independence and Path Dependence 7.8 Recap and Preview Appendix 7A Derivation of Equation Appendix 7B Pascal''s Triangle and the Binomial Model 7.9 Questions and Problems Chapter 8: Calculating the Greeks in the Binomial Model 8.1 Standard Approach 8.2 An Enhanced Method for Estimating Delta and Gamma 8.

3 Numerical Examples 8.4 Dividends 8.5 Recap and Preview 8.5 Questions and Problems Chapter 9: Convergence of the Binomial Model to the Black-Scholes-Merton Model 9.1 Setting up the Problem 9.2 The Hsia Proof 9.3 Put Options 9.4 Dividends 9.

5 Recap and Preview 9.6 Questions and Problems Chapter 10: The Basics of Brownian Motion and Wiener Processes 10.1 Brownian Motion 10.2 The Wiener Process 10.3 Properties of a Model of Asset Price Fluctuations 10.4 Building a Model of Asset Price Fluctuations 10.5 Simulating Brownian Motion and Wiener Processes 10.6 Formal Statement of Wiener Process Properties 10.

7 Recap and Preview Appendix 10A Simulation of the Wiener Process and the Square of the Wiener Process for Successively Smaller Time Intervals 10.8 Questions and Problems Chapter 11: Stochastic Calculus and Itô''s Lemma 11.1 A Result from Basic Calculus 11.2 Introducing Stochastic Calculus and Itô''s Lemma 11.3 Itô''s Integral 11.4 The Integral Form of Itô''s Lemma 11.5 Some Additional Cases of Itô''s Lemma 11.6 Recap and Preview Appendix 11A Technical Stochastic Integral Results 11A.

1 Selected Stochastic Integral Results 11A.2 A General Linear Theorem 11.7 Questions and Problems Chapter 12: Properties of the Lognormal and Normal Diffusion Processes for Modeling Assets 12.1 A Stochastic Process for the Asset Relative Return 12.2 A Stochastic Process for the Asset Price Change 12.3 Solving the Stochastic Differential Equation 12.4 Solutions to Stochastic Differential Equations are Not Always the Same as Solutions to Corresponding Ordinary Differential Equations 12.5 Finding the Expected Future Asset Price 12.

5 Geometric Brownian Motion or Arithmetic Brownian Motion? 12.6 Recap and Preview 12.7 Questions and Problems Chapter 13: Deriving the Black-Scholes-Merton Model 13.1 Derivation of the European Call Option Pricing Formula 13.2 The European Put Option Pricing Formula 13.3 Deriving the Black-Scholes-Merton Model as an Expected Value 13.4 Deriving the Black-Scholes-Merton Model as the Solution of a Partial Differential Equation 13.5 Decomposing the Black-Scholes-Merton Model into Binary Options 13.

6 Black-Scholes-Merton Option Pricing when there are Dividends 13.7 Selected Black-Scholes-Merton Model Limiting Results 13.8 Computing the Black-Scholes-Merton Option Pricing Model Values 13.9 Recap and Preview Appendix 13.A Deriving the Arithmetic Brownian Motion Option Pricing Model 13.10 Questions and Problems Chapter 14: The Greeks in the Black-Scholes-Merton Model 14.1 Delta: The First Derivative with Respect to the Underlying Price 14.2 Gamma: The Second Derivative with Respect to the Underlying Price 14.

3 Theta: The First Derivative with Respect to Time 14.4 Verifying the Solution of the Partial Differential Equation 14.5 Selected Other Partial Derivatives of the Black-Scholes-Merton Model 14.6 Partial Derivatives of the Black-Scholes-Merton European Put Option Pricing Model 14.7 Incorporating Dividends 14.8 Greek Sensitivities 14.8 Elasticities 14.8 Extended Greeks of the Black-Scholes-Merton Option Pricing Model 14.

9 Recap and Preview 14.10 Questions and Problems Chapter 15: Girsanov''s Theorem in Option Pricing 15.1 The Martingale Representation Theorem 15.2 Introducing the Radon-Nikodym Derivative by Changing the Drift for a Single Random Variable 15.3 A Complete Probability Space 15.4 Formal Statement of Girsanov''s Theorem 15.5 Changing the Drift in a Continuous Time Stochastic Process 15.6 Changing the Drift of an Asset Price Process 15.

7 Recap and Preview 15.8 Questions and Problems Chapter 16: Connecting Discrete and Continuous Brownian Motions 16.1 Brownian Motion in a Discrete World 16.2 Moving from a Discrete to a Continuous World 16.3 Changing the Probability Measure with the Radon-Nikodym Derivative in Discrete Time 16.4 The Kolmogorov Equations 16.5 Recap and Preview 16.6 Questions and Problems Chapter 17: Applying Linear Homogeneity to Option Pricing 17.

1 Introduction to Exchange Options 17.2 Homogeneous Functions 17.3 Euler''s Rule 17.4 Using Linear Homogeneity and Euler''s Rule to Derive the Black-Scholes-Merton Model 17.5 Exchange Option Pricing 17.6 Spread Options 17.7 Forward-Start Options 17.8 Recap and Preview Appendix 17A Linear Homogeneity and the Arithmetic Brownian Motion Model Appendix 17B Multivariate Itô''s Lemma Appendix 17C Greeks of the Exchange Option Model 17.

7 Questions and Problems Chapter 18: Compound Option Pricing 18.1 Equity as an Option 18.2 Valuing an Option on the Equity as a Compound Option 18.3 Compound Option Boundary Conditions and Parities 18.4 Geske''s Approach to Valuing a Call on a Call 18.5 Characteristics of Geske''s Call on Call Option 18.6 Geske''s Call on Call Option Model and Linear Homogeneity 18.7 Generalized Compound Option Pricing Model 18.

8 Installment Options 18.9 Recap and Preview Appendix 18A Selected Greeks of the Compound Option 18.10 Questions and Problems Chapter 19: American Call Option Pricing 19.1 Closed-Form American Call Pricing: Roll-Geske-Whaley 19.2 The Two-Payment Case 19.3 Recap and Preview Appendix 19A Numerical Example of the One-Dividend Model 19.4 Questions and Problems Chapter 20: American Put Option Pricing 20.1 The Nature of the Problem of Pricing an American Put 20.

2 The American Put as a Series of Compound Options 20.3 Recap and Preview 20.4 Questions and Problems Chapter 21: Min-Max Option Pricing 21.1 Characteristics of Stulz'' Min-Max Option 21.2 Pricing the Call on the Min 21.3 Other Related Options 21.4 Recap and Preview Appendix 21A Multivariate Feynman-Kac Theorem Appendix 21B An Altern.