Product Description

This book is an introduction to bond markets and bond derivatives for students 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 students, the book is designed to be the main text for a debt markets course or as a supplement for investment, money and banking, and institutional finance courses. For practitioners, the book can be used as a training manual and reference source for firms involved in the debt markets.The book begins with a discussion of the major macroeconomic determinants of interest rates before proceeding to present financial institutions - including the Federal Reserve, the US Treasury, brokers, dealers, investment bankers, mutual funds, banks, pension funds, and insurance companies - and their role in the debt markets. Present value calculations for flat and nonflat term structures are carefully described. Several chapters cover specialized instruments such as money market debt, mortgages, international debt, options, futures, and swaps, while the important concept of arbitrage is shown to link many different types of markets.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1440020 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

From the Publisher
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.

About the Author
Miles Livingston is a Professor of Finance at the University of Florida. He holds an MBA and PhD in Finance from New York University, and has taught at the University of Wisconsin, York University, Concordia University and the College of William and Mary. His 48 articles, published in academic journals, have been discussed in both the Wall Street Journal and Barrons. Livingston is the author of Money and Capital Markets, Third Edition, also published by Blackwell.

Customer Reviews

Better than Harry Potter; a must-read!
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.