Bücher von Gerhard Larcher

The textbook discusses risk management in capital markets and presents various techniques of portfolio optimization. Special attention is given to risk measurement and credit risk management. Furthermore, the author discusses optimal investment problems and presents various examples. In the last section, the book includes numerous case studies based on the author¿s own work as a fund manager, court-appointed expert and consultant in the field of quantitative finance. This book is the third volume of the quantitative finance trilogy by the author and builds on the theoretical groundwork introduced in the previous books. The volume presents real-life examples of the successful application of the introduced techniques and methods in financial services and capital markets.

This textbook offers an easily understandable introduction to the fundamental concepts of financial mathematics and financial engineering. The author presents and discusses the basic concepts of financial engineering and illustrates how to trade and to analyze financial products with numerous examples. Special attention is given to the valuation of basic financial derivatives. In the final section of the book, the author introduces the Wiener Stock Price Model and the basic principles of Black-Scholes theory. The book¿s aim is to introduce readers to the basic techniques of modern financial mathematics in a way that is intuitive and easy to follow, and to provide financial mathematicians with insights into practical requirements when applying financial mathematical techniques in the real world.

This textbook provides the necessary techniques from financial mathematics and stochastic analysis for the valuation of more complex financial products and strategies. The author discusses how to make use of mathematical methods to analyse volatilities in capital markets. Furthermore, he illustrates how to apply and extend the Black-Scholes theory to several fields in finance. In the final section of the book, the author introduces the readers to the fundamentals of stochastic analysis and presents examples of applications. This book builds on the previous volume of the author¿s trilogy on quantitative finance. The aim of the second volume is to present and discuss more complex and advanced techniques of modern financial mathematics in a way that is intuitive and easy to follow. As in the previous volume, the author provides financial mathematicians with insights into practical requirements when applying financial mathematical techniques in the real world.

Dieses Buch führt auf allgemein verständliche und spannende, aber auch (im besten Sinn) ¿belehrende¿ Weise in die Welt der Finanzderivate ein. In kompakter und anschaulicher Form präsentiert es ihren Handel, ihre Funktion, ihre Möglichkeiten sowie die Rolle der Finanzmathematik und Spieltheorie in diesem Zusammenhang. Gerhard Larcher orientiert sich dabei an folgenden Fragestellungen: Wie gelangten Wirtschaftswissenschaftler wie Fisher Black, Myron Scholes und Robert Merton ausgehend von einfachen spieltheoretischen Überlegungen (zum Beispiel zum Münzwurf) im Jahr 1972 schließlich zur weltberühmten Black-Scholes-Theorie, die die Finanzmärkte revolutionieren sollte, und für die im Jahr 1997 an Scholes und Merton der Nobelpreis verliehen wurde? Kann man mit der Hilfe von Derivaten eine ganz konkrete, leicht durchführbare Handelsstrategie entwerfen, mit deren Hilfe sich mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit überdurchschnittliche Gewinne erzielen lassen?