"This book explores the intellectual answers to the problems in functioning of the present-day financial markets and institutions, states and governments. It explores the subjects of financial risk, financialization, moral hazard, macro, micro-prudential policy and public, economic and...

Preface -- Exotic options -- Passport to success / Hyer, Lipton, Pugachevsky -- Similarities via self-similarities / Lipton -- Predictability and unpredictability in financial markets / Lipton -- Universal barriers / Lipton, McGhee -- Pricing of vanilla and first generation exotic options /...

A motivated finance-major student should master at least one programming language. This is especially true for students from quantitative finance, business analytics, those attending a Master of Science in Finance or other financial engineering programs. Among the preferred languages, R holds...