A bewildering number of financial products have been designed to hedge against specific risks. In parallel, a variety of numerical methods have been tailored to price these instruments. This book fills a current gap in the literature by providing a central source that relates the different financial contracts as well as the corresponding numerical approaches. Covering barrier, average and lookback options, both pricing and hedging methodologies are reviewed. In addition, these options are considered for both European- and American-style exercise, and discrete and continous monitoring. Barrier...

This book develops the notion that companies can succeed on the basis of risk management, much as companies compete on efficiency, costs, labor, location, and other dimensions. The reality of risk and how it impacts companies is that it is much more definite, often catastrophic and looks more like a shock. This is striking, as a difference between firms on risk different than a marginal difference in operating efficiencies, for example. Competing on Risk Management requires a discipline, a commitment to using information and recognizing shocks and then acting upon those to redistribute...