Thoroughly revised and updated, the Fourth Edition includes: Three new chapters: Exotic Options and Other Non-Standard Products Credit, Weather, Energy, and Insurance Derivatives Derivative Mishaps and What We Can Learn from Them Important new material on interest rate markets, volatility smiles, and value at risk. Many new problems reinforcing key concepts. A Solutions Manual containing worked-out answers for end-of-chapter questions and problems can now be purchased (ISBN 0-13-060603-0). New Excel-based software, DerivaGem, has been carefully designed to complement the material in the text.