tailieunhanh - QUANTUM FINANCE Path Integrals and Hamiltonians for Options and Interest Rates

Financial markets have undergone tremendous growth and dramatic changes in the past two decades, with the volume of daily trading in currency markets hitting over a trillion US dollars and hundreds of billions of dollars in bond and stock markets. Deregulation and globalization have led to large-scale capital flows; this has raised new problems for finance as well as has further spurred competition among banks and financial institutions. The resulting booms, bubbles and busts of the global financial markets now directly affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people, as was witnessed during the 1998 East Asian financial crisis | ỊT r V Path integrals and s ĩ Hamiltonians for options .It- and interest Rates Be la I E. Baạquie èlWM C MI IDU Cambridge g 9780521840453 This page intentionally left blank QUANTUM FINANCE Path Integrals and Hamiltonians for Options and Interest Rates This book applies the mathematics and concepts of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory to the modelling of interest rates and the theory of options. Particular emphasis is placed on path integrals and Hamiltonians. Financial mathematics at present is almost completely dominated by stochastic calculus. This book is unique in that it offers a formulation that is completely independent of that approach. As such many new results emerge from the ideas developed by the author. This pioneering work will be of interest to physicists and mathematicians working in the field of finance to quantitative analysts in banks and finance firms and to practitioners in the field of fixed income securities and foreign exchange. The book can also be used as a graduate text for courses in financial physics and financial mathematics. Belal E. Baaquie earned his . from Caltech and . in theoretical physics from Cornell University. He has published over 50 papers in leading international journals on quantum field theory and related topics and since 1997 has regularly published papers on applying quantum field theory to both the theoretical and empirical aspects of finance. He helped to launch the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance in 1998 and continues to be one of the .