- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd Edition edition (15 Dec 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1405119128
- ISBN-13: 978-1405119122
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 2.5 x 23.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,336,611 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book provides an introduction to bond markets and bond derivatives for students as well as for executives in commercial businesses and financial institutions. It also:
- Presents the essential elements of debt instruments in an intuitive manner;
- Covers updated institutional material, new sections on callable bonds and the yield to call, convertible bonds, and methods for estimating and modern models of term structure of interest rates, as well as a comprehensive discussion of bonds in the European Economic Union;
- Includes additional end–of–chapter questions, PowerPoint slides, and an Instructor′s text bank through the author′s website: http://bear.cba.ufl.edu/livingston
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Blackwell Publishers
This introduction to bond markets and bond derivatives is ideal for academics as well as for executives in commercial businesses and financial institutions. While many topics about debt instruments involve considerable mathematics, this text presents the essential elements in an intuitive and relatively non-mathematical way. For practitioners, the book can be used as a training manual and reference source for firms involved in the debt markets. In the last 30 years, bond markets have increased significantly in size and complexity. The two major causes are the enormous growth of the level of debt and the high variability of interest rates. Because of interest rate variability, there has been a great increase in potential losses to borrowers and lenders from poor debt choices. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
This introduction to bond markets and bond derivatives is ideal for academics as well as for executives in commercial businesses and financial institutions. While many topics about debt instruments involve considerable mathematics, this text presents the essential elements in an intuitive and relatively non-mathematical way. For practitioners, the book can be used as a training manual and reference source for firms involved in the debt markets. In the last 30 years, bond markets have increased significantly in size and complexity. The two major causes are the enormous growth of the level of debt and the high variability of interest rates. Because of interest rate variability, there has been a great increase in potential losses to borrowers and lenders from poor debt choices. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This text-book is very self-explanatory and quite intuitive. (how often can you say that about a finance text book?) It gets straight to the point and delivers very relevant information for practicioners as well as students. Has very good examples of real life applications and effectively links theory with practice.
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I may be biased because the author is my professor...
4 Feb 2011
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
...but the book isn't anything special. I feel wikipedia could do a better job. Not only the book, but the homework problems and the provided solutions (although occasionally detailed, these solutions are typically just the final answer) aren't very helpful to solidifying any concepts. Simply put -- there's got to be a better book that briefly reviews these same topics in a more beneficial way. I think this book and it's presentation style are simply too outdated.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Good overview for beginners
20 April 2000
Format:Hardcover
This book gives a very good review for beginners investing in the US bond market only. If you are a professional it is more a dictionnary, it doesn't analyse properly instruments. I would like to finally see an author able to understand that a bond is a bond, and a book like that should focus on this and not to give us a extensive listing of all US bonds in the market ....Second USA are not anymore the only financial market in the world : so "International" chapter should be at least as important as the rest of the exercise...
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