Interest Rate Models an Intro

The Field of Financial Mathematics Has Developed Tremendously Over the Past Thirty Years, and the Underlying Models That Have Taken Shape in Interest Rate Markets and Bond Markets, Being Much Richer in Structure Than Equity-Derivative Models, Are Particularly Fascinating and Complex. This Book Introduces the Tools Required for the Arbitrage-Free Modelling of the Dynamics of These Markets. Andrew Cairns Addresses Not Only Seminal Works but Also Modern Developments. Refreshingly Broad in Scope, Covering Numerical Methods, Credit Risk, and Descriptive Models, and With an Approachable Sequence of Opening Chapters, "Interest Rate Models" Will Make Readers - Be They Graduate Students, Academics, or Practitioners - Confident Enough to Develop Their Own Interest Rate Models or to Price Nonstandard Derivatives Using Existing Models. the Mathematical Chapters Begin With the Simple Binomial Model That Introduces Many Core Ideas. but the Main Chapters Work Their Way Systematically Through All of T