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Risk Takers Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives

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ISBN-10: 0321542568

ISBN-13: 9780321542564

Edition: 2nd 2009

Authors: John E. Marthinsen

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KEY MESSAGE:nbsp; In an approachable, non-technical manner,Risk Takersbrings eight modern financial derivatives situations to life, fully exploring the context of each event and evaluating the outcomes. Primer on Derivatives; Employee Stock Options: What Every MBA Student Should Know; Roche Holding: The Company, Its Financial Strategy, and Bull Spread Warrants; Metallgesellschaft AG: Illusion of Profits and Losses; Reality of Cash Flows; Swaps That Shook an Industry: Procter & Gamble versus Bankers Trust; Orange County: The Largest Municipal Failure in U.S. History; Barings Bank PLC: Leesonrsquo;s Lessons; Long Term Capital Mismanagement: ldquo;JM & The Arb Boysrdquo;; Content TBD-Amaranth…    
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List price: $62.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Publication date: 2/7/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.20" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.968

Dr. John E. Marthinsen is Professor of Economics and International Business at Babson College in Babson Park, MA, where he holds The Distinguished Chair in Swiss Economics of the Glavin Center for Global Entrepreneurial Leadership. Dr. Marthinsen received his B.A. from Lycoming College and both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He has extensive consulting experience, working for both domestic and international companies, as well as for the U.S. government. Dr. Marthinsen served on the United Nations Association's Economic Policy Council and lectured at the University of Bern and University of Basel in Switzerland and the University of Nuremberg in Germany. John…    

Primer on Derivatives
Employee
Stock Options: What Every MBA Student Should Know
Roche
Holding: The Company, Its Financial Strategy, and Bull Spread Warrants
Metallgesellschaft
AG: Illusion of Profits and Losses; Reality of Cash Flows
Swaps
That Shook an Industry: Procter & Gamble versus Bankers Trust
Orange
County: The Largest Municipal Failure in U.S. History
Barings
Bank PLC: Leeson s Lessons
Long
Term Capital Mismanagement: JM & The Arb Boys
Amaranth
Advisors LLC: Using Gas Futures to Bet on the Weather
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Division of Polynomials
Real Zeros of Polynomial Functions
The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
Rational Functions and Models
More Equations and Inequalities
Radical Equations and Power Functions
Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
Combining Functions
Inverse Functions and Their Representations
Exponential Functions and Models
Logarithmic Functions and Models
Properties of Logarithms
Exponential and Logarithmic Equations
Constructing Nonlinear Models
Systems of Equations and Inequalities
Functions and Systems of Equations in Two Variables
Systems of Inequalities in Two Variables
Systems of Linear Equations in Three Variables
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Properties and Applications of Matrices
Inverses of Matrices
Determinants
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Counting
The Binomial Theorem
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Integer Exponents
Polynomial Expressions
Factoring Polynomials
Rational Expressions
Radical Notation and Rational Exponents
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Relativity
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