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Python for Finance - Second Edition

By : Yuxing Yan
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Book Image

Python for Finance - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Yuxing Yan

Overview of this book

This book uses Python as its computational tool. Since Python is free, any school or organization can download and use it. This book is organized according to various finance subjects. In other words, the first edition focuses more on Python, while the second edition is truly trying to apply Python to finance. The book starts by explaining topics exclusively related to Python. Then we deal with critical parts of Python, explaining concepts such as time value of money stock and bond evaluations, capital asset pricing model, multi-factor models, time series analysis, portfolio theory, options and futures. This book will help us to learn or review the basics of quantitative finance and apply Python to solve various problems, such as estimating IBM’s market risk, running a Fama-French 3-factor, 5-factor, or Fama-French-Carhart 4 factor model, estimating the VaR of a 5-stock portfolio, estimating the optimal portfolio, and constructing the efficient frontier for a 20-stock portfolio with real-world stock, and with Monte Carlo Simulation. Later, we will also learn how to replicate the famous Black-Scholes-Merton option model and how to price exotic options such as the average price call option.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Python for Finance Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Credit spread


Credit spreads (default risk premium) reflect their default risk. For example, to estimate the present value of a coupon payment in two years for an AA rated bond, the discount rate (yield) will be a risk-free rate plus the corresponding spread. For a given credit rating, its credit spread could be found by using historical data. Here is a typical table showing the relationship between credit risk premium (spread) and the credit rating, see the following table:

We thank Prof Adamodar for making the dataset available at his website, http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/pc/datasets/:

Credit Spread based on credit rating

Spreads, except the last row in the preceding table, have a unit of basic-point, which is the 100th of one percent. For example, or an A- (A minus) rated bond with a maturity of five years, its spared is 83.6 basis points. Since the risk-free is 1.582% (for a 5-year treasury rate), the YTM for this bond will be 2.418%, that is, 0.01582+83.6/100/100. Based on the...