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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

Exercises


  1. How many credit agencies are there in the US? Which are the major ones?

  2. How many types of definition of risk are there? What are the differences between credit risk and market risk?

  3. How do you estimate the total risk and market risk of a firm? What is the related mathematical formula?

  4. How do you estimate the credit risk of a firm? What is the related mathematical formula?

  5. Why might the credit risk of a bond be different than its company's credit rating?

  6. If everything is equal, which one is for risk, long-term bonds, or short-term bonds?

  7. What is the definition of credit spread? Why is it useful?

  8. What are uses of the term structure of interest rate?

  9. What are the definitions of X1, X2, X3, X4, and X5 for Altman's Z-score? Explain why the higher a Z-score, the lower the probability of bankruptcy:

  10. Identify an issue with z score and find a way to address the issue.

  11. What is the one-year migration (transition) matrix?

  12. What is the relationship between the credit rating and the default probability...