This text aims to provide practical models and methods for the quantitative analysis of financial asset prices, construction of various portfolios, and computer-assisted trading systems. In particular, it should be helpful reading for Quants (quantitatively-inclined analysts) in financial industries, financial engineers in investment banks; securities companies, derivative-trading companies, and software houses who are developing portfolio trading systems; graduate students and specialists in the areas of finance, business, hardbound economics, statistics, financial engineering; investors who...

1. Main Goals The theory of asset pricing has grown markedly more sophisticated in the last two decades, with the application of powerful mathematical tools such as probability theory, stochastic processes and numerical analysis. The main goal of this book is to provide a systematic exposition, with practical appli- cations, of the no-arbitrage theory for asset pricing in financial engineering in the framework of a discrete time approach. The book should also serve well as a textbook on financial asset pricing. It should be accessible to a broad audi- ence, in particular to practitioners in...