Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Risk

by Edward LiPuma and Benjamin Lee

Book Overview

The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the world, and it is growing exponentially. In 1970 the yearly valuation of financial derivatives was only a few million dollars. By 1980 the sum had swollen to nearly one hundred million dollars. By 1990 it had climbed to almost one hundred billion dollars, and in 2000 it approached one hundred trillion. Created and sustained by a small number of European...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822334186
• ISBN13: 9780822334187
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"