DYNAMIC ASSET PRICING THEORY
This is a thoroughly updated
edition of Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory, the standard text for doctoral students and
researchers on the theory of asset pricing and portfolio selection in multiperiod settings
under uncertainty. The asset pricing results are based on three increasingly restrictive
assumptions: absence of arbitrage, single-agent optimality, and equiltbrium. These results
are unified with two key concepts, state prices and martingales. Technicalities are given
relatively little emphasis, so as to draw connections between these concepts and to make
plain the similarities between discrete and continuous-time models.
Readers will be particularly
intrigued by this latest edition's most significant new feature: a chapter on corporate
securities that offers alternative approaches to the valuation of corporate debt. Also,
while much of the continuous-time portion of the theory is based on Brownian motion, this
third edition introduces jumps for example, those associated with Poisson arrivals-in
order to accommodate surprise events such as bond defaults. Applications include
term-structure models, derivative valuation, and hedging methods. Numerical methods
covered include Monte Carlo simulation and finite-difference solutions for partial
differential equations. Each chapter provides extensive problem exercises and notes to the
literature. A system of appendixes reviews the necessary mathematical concepts. And
references have been updated throughout. With this new edition. Dynamic Asset Pricing
Theory remains at the head of the field.
"This is an
important addition to the set of text/reference books on asset pricing theory. It will, if
it has not already, become the standard text for the second Ph.D. course in security
markets. Its treatment of contingent claim valuation, in particular, is unrivaled in its
breadth and coherence." Journal of Economic Literature
"An excellent,
comprehensive treatment of both discrete-time and continuous-time asset pricing theory....
The extensive and well-chosen exercises at the end of each chapter make [this] especially
attractive as a text for an advanced-level course." Robert C. Merton, 7997 Nobel
laureate in economics
DABRELL DOFFIE is the James
Irvin Miller Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.
He teaches and does research in the area of asset valuation, risk management, credit risk
modeling, and fixed-income and equity markets. His other books include Security Markets:
462 pages