Designed for those who want to teach managers how to use derivatives to maximize firm value through risk management, this book presents the crucial tools necessary for executives and future derivatives players to effectively hedge with derivatives in order to protect firms from losses.

1. Introduction to Derivatives 2. Investors, Derivatives and Risk Management 3. Creating value with risk management 4. An integrated approach to risk management 5. Forward and futures contracts 6. Hedging exposures with forward and futures contracts 7. Optimal hedges for the real world 8. Identifying and managing cash flow exposures 9. Hedging with options 10. Option pricing, dynamic hedging, and the binomial model 11. The Black-Scholes model 12. Risk measurement and risk management with nonlinear payoffs 13. Options on bonds and interest rates 14. The demand and supply for derivative products 15. Swaps 16. Using Exotic Options 17. Credit risks and credit derivatives 18. The practice of risk management: Recent and future developments.

1. Introduction to Derivatives. 2. Investors, Derivatives and Risk Management. 3. Creating value with risk management. 4. An integrated approach to risk management. 5. Forward and futures contracts. 6. Hedging exposures with forward and futures contracts. 7. Optimal hedges for the real world. 8. Identifying and managing cash flow exposures. 9. Hedging with options. 10. Option pricing, dynamic hedging, and the binomial model. 11. The Black-Scholes model. 12. Risk measurement and risk management with nonlinear payoffs. 13. Options on bonds and interest rates. 14. The demand and supply for derivative products. 15. Swaps. 16. Using Exotic Options. 17. Credit risks and credit derivatives. 18. The practice of risk management: Recent and future developments.

Rene M. Stulz is the Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics at the Ohio State University and the Director of the Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics at the Ohio State University. He previously taught at the University of Rochester and held visiting appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago. He was a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School for the 1996-1997 academic year. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland and is a Fellow of the Financial Management Association. Rene M. Stulz was editor of the Journal of Finance for twelve years and a co-editor of the Journal of Financial Economics for five years. He edits the corporate finance and banking abstracts for the Social Sciences Research Network. He is also on the editorial board of several academic and practitioner journals. Further, he is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.