This textbook emphasizes the applications of statistics and probability to finance. Students are assumed to have had a prior course in statistics, but no background in finance or economics. The basics of probability and statistics are reviewed and more advanced topics in statistics, such as...

Intro -- Risk Management and Financial Institutions -- Contents in Brief -- Contents -- Business Snapshots -- Preface -- New Material -- Slides -- Questions and Problems -- Instructor Material -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Risk vs. Return for Investors -- 1.1.1 Quantifying Risk --...

Accessibility to finance -- Alternative financial systems -- Fragility of debt -- Religion and economics -- The inconsistencies of financial modeling -- Fragility of statistics -- Mandelbrot's fat tails -- Thinking fast (and slow) with Kahneman -- Taleb's black swan -- Risk-sharing --...

Basiswissen Kreditderivate. Wenn es für Anleger darum geht, viele unterschiedliche Ertragsquellen zu erschließen oder das Risiko der Kreditgeber zu steuern, sind sie das Mittel der Wahl: Kreditderivate. Das universelle Nachschlagewerk informiert umfassend über Märkte und Produkte zum...