Description
This book provides a comprehensive but concise treatment of the subject of derivatives. It focuses on making essential concepts accessible to a wider audience. The book eschews complicated mathematics and high school level mathematics is sufficient to understand it. It describes and explains various derivative instruments, their use and pricing, and the functioning of derivative markets. It uses a large number of examples to elucidate concepts and illustrate their real-life application. A distinguishing feature of the book is that it goes beyond the narrow perspective of derivative traders and investors and takes a broader approach which enhances its appeal to a range of readers. This book will be useful for students in the fields of economics, econometrics, derivatives, and finance and financial professionals, bankers and investors.
A comprehensive, concise treatment of the subject of derivatives focusing on making essential concepts accessible to wider audiences.
About the Author
T. V. Somanathan is Additional Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office of the Government of India. He was till recently Director with the World Bank, Washington, having first joined the Bank under its Young Professionals Program and worked in the Bank in different stints as Financial Economist and Manager for Budget Policy. He is also a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and has served in a variety of policy-making positions in State and Union governments in India. He has published over 80 academic papers and newspaper articles on economics, finance and public policy. He has co-authored, with V. Anantha-Nageswaran, The Economics of Derivatives (Cambridge) which was published in 2015 to much critical acclaim. V. Anantha-Nageswaran teaches International Economics and Financial Markets at the Singapore Management University, at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Indore and at the SP Jain Center for Management in Singapore. He has authored Policy Studies on the feasibility of a free trade agreement between India and China, on the financial systems of India and China and a policy brief on the recommendations of the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (India) for the Takshashila Institution. He is the author, with T. V.Somanathan, of The Economics of Derivatives (Cambridge, 2015). Harsh Gupta is chief investment officer at Ashika Investement Managers in Mumbai, India. He has an M.B.A (INSEAD), B.A. Economics (Dartmouth) and is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Financial Risk Manager. He has worked as a management consultant at Bain and Company in London and Houston, and for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Poverty Action Lab as a Research Associate. He writes about policy issues for Mint.
Book Information
ISBN 9781108402712
Author T. V. Somanathan
Format Paperback
Page Count 342
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 440g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm * 20mm
A comprehensive, concise treatment of the subject of derivatives focusing on making essential concepts accessible to wider audiences.
About the Author
T. V. Somanathan is Additional Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office of the Government of India. He was till recently Director with the World Bank, Washington, having first joined the Bank under its Young Professionals Program and worked in the Bank in different stints as Financial Economist and Manager for Budget Policy. He is also a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and has served in a variety of policy-making positions in State and Union governments in India. He has published over 80 academic papers and newspaper articles on economics, finance and public policy. He has co-authored, with V. Anantha-Nageswaran, The Economics of Derivatives (Cambridge) which was published in 2015 to much critical acclaim. V. Anantha-Nageswaran teaches International Economics and Financial Markets at the Singapore Management University, at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and Indore and at the SP Jain Center for Management in Singapore. He has authored Policy Studies on the feasibility of a free trade agreement between India and China, on the financial systems of India and China and a policy brief on the recommendations of the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (India) for the Takshashila Institution. He is the author, with T. V.Somanathan, of The Economics of Derivatives (Cambridge, 2015). Harsh Gupta is chief investment officer at Ashika Investement Managers in Mumbai, India. He has an M.B.A (INSEAD), B.A. Economics (Dartmouth) and is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Financial Risk Manager. He has worked as a management consultant at Bain and Company in London and Houston, and for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Poverty Action Lab as a Research Associate. He writes about policy issues for Mint.
Book Information
ISBN 9781108402712
Author T. V. Somanathan
Format Paperback
Page Count 342
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 440g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 150mm * 20mm
