"The third edition of this popular textbook offers several new updates. The book presents the basics of fixed-income securities. It requires a minimum of prerequisites. The author presents a coherent theoretical framework for understanding all basic models. The author's pricing model is widely...

This book teaches the basics of fixed-income securities in a way that, unlike competitive texts, requires a minimum of prerequisites. While other books focus heavily on institutional details of the bond market, all of which could easily be learned "on the job," Jarrow is more concerned with...

This paper documents the fact that in options markets, the (percentage) implied volatility bid-ask spread increases at an increasing rate as the option's maturity date approaches. To explain this stylized fact, this paper provides a market microstructure model for the bid-ask spread in options...