Lépinay Codes of Finance

Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4046-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lépinay, Vincent Antonin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Preface Financial Innovation from within the Bank ix
Prologue A Day in a Trader’s Life 1
Introduction Questioning Finance 6

Part I From Models to Books 23
Chapter 1: Thinking Financially and Exploring the Code 29
Chapter 2: Hedging and Speculating with Portfolios 55

Part II: Topography of a Secret Experiment 87
Chapter 3: The Trading Room as a Market 91
Chapter 4: The Memory of Banking 119

Part III: Porous Banking: Clients and Investors in Search of Accounts 153
Chapter 5: Selling Finance and the Promise of Contingency 157
Chapter 6: The Costs of Price 182
Chapter 7: Reverse Finance 204
Conclusion What Good Are Derivatives? 222

Appendix A: Capital Guarantee Product: The Full Prospectus 233
Notes 235
Bibliography 265
Index 277

Über Autor(innen)

Vincent Antonin Lépinay is associate professor in the sociology department at Sciences Po in Paris. He is also head of the Center for Science and Technology Studies at the European University at St. Petersburg. He is the coauthor (with Bruno Latour) of The Science of Passionate Interests.