Vinzenz Bronzin's Option Pricing Models: Exposition and Appraisal

By Wolfgang Hafner

Book Overview

Vinzenz Bronzin - Personal Life and work.- Vinzenz Bronzin - Personal Life and Work.- Stefan Zweig: A Representative Voice of the Time.- Stefan Zweig: A Representative Voice of the Time.- How I Discovered Bronzin's Book.- How I Discovered Bronzin's Book.- Theorie der Pr?miengesch?fte.- Facsimile of Bronzin's Original Treatise.- Theory of Premium Contracts.- Translation of Bronzin's Treatise.- Background and Appraisal of Bronzin's Work.- A Review and Evaluation of Bronzin's Contribution from a Financial Economics Perspective.- Probabilistic Roots of Financial Modelling: A Historical Perspective.- The Contribution of the Social-Economic Environment to the Creation of Bronzin's "Theory of Premium Contracts".- Cultural and Socio-Historical Background.- The Late Habsburg Monarchy - Economic Spurt or Delayed Modernization?.- A Change in the Paradigm for Teaching Mathematics.- Review of Bronzin's Book in the "Monatshefte f?r Mathematik und Physik".- Monatshefte f?r Mathematik und Physik - A Showcase of the Culture of Mathematicians in the Habsburgian-Hungarian Empire During the Period from 1890 until 1914.- The Certainty of Risk in the Markets of Uncertainty.- Trieste.- Speculation and Security. The Financial World in Trieste in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century.- The Cultural Landscape of Trieste at the Beginning of the 20th Century - an Essay.- Trieste: A Node of the Actuarial Network in the Early 1900s.- Finance, Economics and Actuarial Science.- A Short History of Derivative Security Markets.- Retrospective Book Review on James Moser: "Die Lehre von den Zeitgesch?ften und deren Combinationen" (1875).- The History of Option Pricing and Hedging.- The Early History of Option Contracts.- Bruno de Finetti, Actuarial Sciences and the Theory of Finance in the 20th Century.- The Origins of Expected Utility Theory.- An Early Structured Product: Illustrative Pricing of Repeat Contracts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642445934
• ISBN13: 9783642445934
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 562 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"