Risk Takers

391 Pages·2018·4.511 MB·English

by  John E. E. Marthinsen

John E. Marthinsen
Risk Takers

John E. Marthinsen
Risk Takers
Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives
Third Edition
ISBN 978-1-5474-1609-7
e-ISBN (PDF) 978-1-5474-0003-4
e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-1-5474-0005-8
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018937501
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© 2018 John E. Marthinsen
Published by Walter de Gruyter Inc., Boston/Berlin
Printing and binding: CPI books GmbH, Leck
Typesetting: MacPS, LLC, Carmel
Cover image: sompong_tom / iStock / Getty Images Plus
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I dedicate this book to my wife, Laraine.
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Acknowledgments
I take pleasure in thanking my students, colleagues (both at Babson College and other
academic institutions), reviewers, editorial staff, librarians, research assistants, and
friends for the help they have given me while writing all three editions of Risk Takers:
Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives. Babson colleagues who provided valuable
feedback were John Edmunds, Craig Ehrlich, Robert McAuliffe, Erik Sirri, and Vir-
ginia Soybel. Other colleagues, as well as reviewers, students, research assistants,
and friends who helped and contributed useful insights were Poonam Bajaj, James
Bennett, Dan M. Berkovitz, Jeremy Berkowitz, Antonio Camara, Charles Q. Cao, Don
Chance, Mukesh Chaudhry, Patrice Clarke, Octavia Costea, Anna Dodonova, Imad
Elhaj, Ekaterina Emm, Michael Haigh, Shantaram Hegde, Ufuk Ince, Francis Laatsch,
Blake LeBaron, John A. MacDonald, Craig Marthinsen, Stewart Mayhew, Robert
Merton, Lalatendu Misra, Valerie Nicholas, James Overdahl, Daniel A. Rogers, Eric
Rosenfeld, Amareshwar Sahay, Glen Stevens, Nicholas Valeio III, Niklas Wagner, Jill
Wetmore, and Hongmin Zi.
Among the editorial staff and librarians who provided valuable assistance were
Donna Battista, Patricia Berens, Kathryn Dinovo, Kristin Djorup, Meredith Gertz,
Christina Gleason, Gina Kolenda, Janette Krauss, Maria McColligan, Heather McNally,
and Kerri McQueen, Deb Meredith, and Deb Tokars.
Special thanks go to the staff at De Gruyter for their work in producing the third
edition of Risk Takers: Uses and Abuses of Financial Derivatives. Among the team
were Jaya Dalal, Michael C. Thomsett, tech reviewer, Katja Brockmann, production
manager, and MacPS, LLC, responsible for typesetting and proofing the manuscript.
It has been a pleasure working with Jeffrey M. Pepper, Editorial Director, who worked
carefully on this book.
With all the time and effort that went into proofreading each chapter, my sincere
hope is it resulted in an error-free book, but I realize this is just a Don Quixote-ish,
wishful dream. I warmly invite readers to contact me ([email protected]) with
any corrections, comments, insights, and/or constructive criticism you have.

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