The Legacy of Fischer Black

<body stylesrc="../_private/template_title.htm" topmargin="10" leftmargin="10" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#333366" vlink="#000000" alink="#000000"> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" cellpadding="0" id="table2"> <tr> <td width="780" align="center"> <div align="center"> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" height="206" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" id="table3"> <tr> <td align="right" height="198" width="1%"> <p align="left"> <img border="0" src="../images/book_lehmann_bruce_(2005).gif" width="134" height="200"></td> <td valign="top" align="left" height="198"> <table border="0" cellspacing="1" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" cellpadding="0" id="table4"> <tr> <td colspan="3" width="0%"> <p class="book_title">The Legacy of Fischer Black</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" class="book_details_tags" valign="top" height="16" align="left"> <img border="0" src="../images/blank_2x2.gif" width="2" height="2"><img border="0" src="../images/blank_2x2.gif" width="2" height="2"></td> <td width="52%" class="book_details_tags" valign="top" height="144" align="left" rowspan="9"> <map name="FPMap2"> <area href="../main/ratings.htm" shape="rect" coords="71, 0, 160, 33"> </map> <img border="0" src="../images_title/lehman5.gif" usemap="#FPMap2" width="224" height="158"></td> <td class="book_details" valign="top" height="16" align="left" width="50%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" class="book_details_tags" valign="top" height="16" align="left"> </td> <td class="book_details" valign="top" height="16" align="left" width="50%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" class="book_details_tags" valign="top" height="16" align="left"> </td> <td class="book_details" valign="top" height="16" align="left" width="50%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" class="book_details_tags" valign="top" height="16" align="left"> </td> <td class="book_details" valign="top" height="16" align="left" width="50%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" class="book_details_tags" valign="top" height="16" align="left"> </td> <td class="book_details" valign="top" height="16" align="left" width="50%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" class="book_details_tags" valign="top" height="16" align="left"> </td> <td class="book_details" valign="top" height="16" align="left" width="50%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" class="book_details_tags" valign="top" height="16" align="left"> </td> <td class="book_details" valign="top" height="16" align="left" width="50%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" class="book_details_tags" valign="top" height="16" align="left"> </td> <td class="book_details" height="32" align="center" width="50%" rowspan="2"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="1%" class="book_details_tags" valign="top" height="16" align="left"> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="468" id="table5"> <tr> <td> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr> </table> </div> <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" id="table6"> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <p align="left" class="body"><strong style="font-weight: 400">This edited collection contains 12 papers in commemoration of Fischer Black. Eight of them were presented at a 1996 conference in honor of Black. Three of the papers survey Black's contributions to finance and economics. Together they provide a better overview of Black's work than does the biography by Mehrling (<a href="../titles/mehrling_perry_(2005).htm">2005</a>)—but that book explains his economic research in more depth and describes Black's life biographically.</strong></p> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="130" align="left" id="table7"> <tr> <td width="125"> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td><td width="5"> </td> </tr> </table> <p align="left" class="body"><strong style="font-weight: 400">The balance of the papers address a variety of topics. Some mention Black. Others do not. You will recognize a number of practitioners and academics among the authors. Some are quite scholarly. Others are ore informal. Flipping through them is like flipping through a general finance journal. Some will interest you. Others will not. </strong></p> <p align="left" class="body"><strong style="font-weight: 400">For the most part, articles are non-technical. However, most refer to sophisticated financial concepts and a few delve into mathematical formulas. </strong></p> </td> <td width="50%" valign="top" class="body" rowspan="2"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" id="table8"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#333366"> <p class="header_yellow" align="center">Contents</td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" class="explanatory_text"> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="5" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#CCCCFF" bgcolor="#CCCCFF" width="100%" id="table9"> <tr> <td class="contents_expanded"> <p class="contents_expanded" style="margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 10">1. Fischer Black on valuation : the CAPM in general equilibrium<p class="contents_expanded" style="margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 10">2. Fischer Black's contributions to corporate finance<p class="contents_expanded" style="margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 10"> 3. Crisis and risk management <p class="contents_expanded" style="margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 10">4. Hot spots and hedges<p class="contents_expanded" style="margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 10"> 5. Markets for agents : fund management <p class="contents_expanded" style="margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 10">6. Recovering probabilities and risk aversion from options prices and realized returns<p class="contents_expanded" style="margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 10"> 7. Cross-sectional determinants of expected returns<p class="contents_expanded" style="margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 10"> 8. On cross-sectional determinants of expected returns<p class="contents_expanded" style="margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 10"> 9. Exploring a two-factor, Markovian, lognormal model of the term structure of interest rates<p class="contents_expanded" style="margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 10">10. Convexity and empirical option costs of mortgage securities<p class="contents_expanded" style="margin-top: 10; margin-bottom: 10"> 11. The supply and demand of immediacy : evidence from the NYSE<p class="contents_expanded" style="margin-top: 16; margin-bottom: 10"> 12. Black, Merton, and Scholes - their central contributions to economics </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p align="left" class="body"><strong style="font-weight: 400">Overall, this is a nice book to commemorate Black's work. 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