The Options Primer provides a brief yet comprehensive introduction to the complex issues surrounding options.
About the Author
ROBERT W. KOLB was John S. and James L. Knight Professor of Finance at the University of Miami until 1995. He is author or coauthor of finance texts on a range of topics including futures, options, financial derivatives, investments, corporate finance, and financial institutions. He was founder and president of Kolb Publishing Company, sold to Blackwell Publishers in 1995. His research has been published in Financial Management, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Futures Markets.
Features
* Brief, yet comprehensive introduction to the complex issues surrounding options * Building block approach toward the factors affecting option pricing * OPTVAL! software accompanies each copy of the text. Allows users to explore option pricing relationships discussed in the text, computes virtually all model prices and examples in the text and graphs option relationships. * Text includes more than 40 exercises that can be completed using the software.
