Derivatives Handbook

ROBERT J. SCHWARTZ is Executive Vice President and head of Global Derivatives of the Republic National Bank of New York. Prior to that he served as Executive Vice President and COO of Mitsubishi Capital Market Services, where he was in charge of establishing derivative products sales and trading operations in North America. He is the founding Chairman of the International Association of Financial Engineering and was elected to the board of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association three times. CLIFFORD W. SMITH, Jr., is Clarey Professor of Finance at the Simon Graduate School of Business of the University of Rochester. He has served as President of the Financial Management Association National Honor Society and in various board capacities for the IAFE. He has written twelve books and more than eighty articles in leading finance journals.