MAP20070027597Smithson, Charles W.Managing financial risk : a guide to derivative products, financial engineering, and value maximization / Charles W. Smithson, Clifford W. Smith, Jr. and D.Sykes Wilford. — Chicago [etc.] : Irwin, cop. 1995XVI, 538 p. ; 24 cmSumario: The evolution of risk management products -- An overview of the risk management process: a building-block approach to forwards, futures, swaps, options, and hybrid securities -- The state of the risk management market -- How risk management can increase the value of the firm -- Measuring a firm's exposure to financial price risk -- Forward contracts -- Using forwards to manage financial price risks -- Futures -- Using futures to manage financial prices risks -- Swaps -- Using swaps to manage financial price risks -- A primer on options -- A taxonomy of option-pricing models -- Using options to manage financial price risks -- Engineering "new" risk management products -- Hybrid securities -- Measuring and managing default risk -- Managing price risk in a portfolio of derivatives -- The impact of risk management