Risk Management and Derivatives Products

Author: Statt
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Financial derivatives are important tools for corporate risk management. This book starts with the measurement of risk and its impact on corporate value, providing a detailed introduction on how to use various derivatives as tools for risk management. The book is well-structured, concise in language, and appropriately detailed, making it an excellent textbook. Professor René M. Statt is the Distinguished Professor of Banking and Monetary Economics and Director of the Dice Center for Financial Economics at Ohio State University. He has taught at the University of Rochester and held visiting positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago. Professor Statt was a Marvin Bower Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Business School during the 1996-1997 academic year. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, is a member of the Financial Management Association, and is the incoming president of the American Finance Association.