AN INTRODUCTION TO DERIVATIVES AND RISK MANAGEMENT, 6^th edition 

(This is the author's site for this textbook.  It contains information about the book and also updates, corrections, etc.  See the links at the bottom of this page.)

Don M. Chance, Ph.D., CFA
William H. Wright Endowed Chair for Financial Services
E. J. Ourso College of Business Administration
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA  70803
225-763-6343, 225-763-6343 (fax)
E-mail: dchance@lsu.edu

Copyright © 2004
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South-Western web site for the book
Anyone can access the above web site.  Choose the 6th edition and the link "Student Resources" to download:

• Excel spreadsheets to perform Black-Scholes and binomial option pricing and Greeks calculations, analysis of profits from option strategies, estimation of historical volatility, estimation of Treasury bond futures conversion factor, identification of cheapest-to-deliver bond on Treasury bond futures contract, and others.
• One Windows executable program to perform Black-Scholes and binomial option pricing and Greeks calculations
• Powerpoint slides:  Please feel free to download these.  They give you a good overall picture of the book.

Instructors who adopt the book receive an Instructor's Manual  that contains 

• Detailed solutions to all end-of-chapter problems
• Multiple choice and true-false test bank

Instructors can register at the above site (click on "Instructor Resources") and download

• The student items (see above)
• An electronic version of the end of chapter solutions and test bank

If you want to order the book, I suggest Barnes and Noble.

For a list of corrections to the text and ancillaries visit the site. (Many authors hate to admit that their books have mistakes. They'd rather let you find them and hope you miss them. I'd rather tell you about them. If you find any more, please email me.)

Follow this link for a pdf file containing The Preface

Follow this link for a pdf containing a detailed Table of Contents.

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