Emanuel Derman (emanuel DOT derman AT mac DOT com)
Writings on Quantitative Finance
 
SLAC Colloquium Video
NYU Derivatives 2007Panel
 
 
 Prisma Capital Partners
 Columbia FE Program
 
 Eman's blog
 
 

Books

My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance 
At Wiley Finance
At Amazon
At Barnes & Noble
 
Discussed in The Einsteins of Wall Street by Jeremy Bernstein in the September 2004 Issue of Commentary Magazine
Excerpt of My Life as a Quant in Financial Engineering News (September 2004)
 
 
Russian book cover  

Articles

Miscellany 

All models sweep dirt under the rug; a good model makes explicit the dirt beneath the surface (Business Week Jan 12 2009)
WHAT TO EXPECT FROM FINANCIAL MODELS
Can Science Help Solve The Economic Crisis? I'm Not So Sure!
Letter to the NY Times (October 18 2008): Who's the Boss: You or Your Computer?
In Modeling Risk, the Human Factor Was Left Out. (NY Times Business Nov 5 2008)
Interview at TradingMarkets.com (2008)
Interview in March 2008 Wilmott Magazine
Life in the Hotel Okura
Markov Chain Model to Estimate the Premium for Extended Hedge Fund Lockups (Derman, Park, Whitt)
A Simple Model for the Expected Premium for Hedge Fund Lockups (http://ssrn.com/abstract=952889)
Short bio
The Programmer's Night Song
My double in Sports Illustrated 2004 Baseball Preview, April 5 2004
Wilmott 2006 Award
Make the Crime Fit the Punishment
Business Week: The Quintessential Quant

Recent Columns 

Metaphors (October 2008)
Beware of Economists Bearing Greek Symbols (Harvard Business Review, Oct 2005)
Secrecy on Wall Street (Risk, August 2004)
Finding a Job in Finance (Risk, May 2004)
Where the Betas are Zero and the Excess Returns are All Above Average (Risk, March 2004)
It's All Greeks to Me (Risk, October 2003)
What Quants Don't Learn at College (Risk, July 2003)
The Master Agreement (Risk, April 2003)
The Boy's Guide To Pricing and Hedging (Risk, January 2003)
Cranks, Academics & Practitioners (Risk, September 2002)
Nine Billion Ways to Be Snowed (Risk, June 2002)
Markets and Models (Risk, July 2001)
The Great Pretender (Derivatives Strategy, January 2001)

Recent Papers and Reviews 
Interview (Financial Engineering News, 2003)
The Illusion of Dynamic Replication (with Nassim Taleb, April 2005)
Review of "Principles of Financial Engineering" by Salah Neftci (Financial Analysts Journal, 2005)
Beware of Economists Bearing Greek Symbols (Harvard Business Review, October 2005)
Review of "The Legacy of Fischer Black" edited by Bruce N. Lehmann. (Financial Analysts Journal, May/June 2006)
Sophisticated Vulgarity (Risk Magazine, July 2007)
Book Review of "How I Became a Quant",Wall Street Journal, August 2007)
On Models

Recent Talks 
Trading Volatility as an Asset (Talk at the GAIM Conference, Geneva, June 2003)
The Problem of the Volatility Smile Talk at the Euronext Options Conference, Amsterdam, May 2003
Selection of the Financial Engineer of the Year 2002 (Talk at the IAFE Financial Engineer of the Year dinner, Feb 2003)
A Poor Man's Guide to Quantitative Finance (Talk at Carnegie Mellon University, October 2002)
A Physicist's Guide To Quantitative Finance (Talk at The American Physical Society, April 2002)
Has Quantitative Finance Reached Its Limits? (Talk at the ICBI Global Risk Conference, Dec 2004)

Quantitative Strategies 
Market Bubbles (Quantitative Finance, August 2002)
The Principles & Practice of Verifying Derivative Prices (RISK, 14(7), July 2001, pp. 48-50)
The Great Pretender (Derivatives Strategy, January 2001)
More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Volatility Swaps (The Journal of Derivatives, 6-4 Summer 1999, pp. 9 - 32)
Regimes of Volatility (RISK, April 1999)
When You Cannot Hedge Continuously, The Corrections of Black-Scholes (RISK, 12-1 Jan.1999, pp. 82 - 85)
Stochastic Implied Trees: Arbitrage Pricing with Stochastic Term and Strike Structure of Volatility (International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, 1(1) Jan. 1998, pp.61-110)
The Future of Modeling (RISK, 10-12 Dec. 1997, pp. 164-167)
Trading & Hedging Local Volatility (The Journal of Financial Engineering, 6-3 September 1997 pp. 1233-268)
Reflections on Fischer (The Journal of Portfolio Management, Special Issue December 1996, pp. 18-24)
Implied Trinomial Trees of the Volatility Smile (The Journal of Derivatives, 3-4 Summer 1996, pp. 7-22)
The Local Volatility Surface: Unlocking the Information in Index Options Pricing (Financial Analysts Journal, July-Aug 1996, pp. 25-36)
Model Risk (RISK, 9-5 May 1996, pp. 139-145, pp. 34-37)
Enhanced Numerical Methods for Options with Barriers (Financial Analysts Journal, Nov-Dec 1995, pp. 65-74)
Static Options Replication (The Journal of Derivatives, 2-4 Summer 1995, pp. 78-95)
The Volatility Smile and Its Implied Tree (RISK, 7-2 Feb.1994, pp. 139-145, pp. 32-39)
Options on Periodically-Settled Stocks (1992)

Older Writings 
On Vasicek's Induction Into The Derivatives Strategy Magazine Hall of Fame (2000)
Review of Jarrow and Turnbull's 'Derivative Securities' (1996)
A One-Factor Model of Interest Rates and its Application to Treasury Bond Options (Black-Derman-Toy)
Outperformance Options (January, 1992)
Valuing Convertible Bonds as Derivatives (November 1994 - A one-factor convertible model now used by many hedge funds)
On Fischer Black's Induction into the FIAS Hall of Fame
Roundtable Discussion - The Limits of Modeling (Derivatives Strategy, April 1998)
Investing in Volatility (Futures and Options World, 1998)
Strike-Adjusted Spread: A New Metric for Estimating the Value of Equity Options (July, 1999)

Biographical 
Physics Envy (Economist May 16, 2002)
New Dangers (Economist May 16, 2002)
Financial Engineer of the Year (September 7, 2000)
Financial Engineer of the Year Acceptance Speech
A Guide for the Perplexed Quant (Quantitative Finance)
A Calculus of Risk (Scientific American, May 1998)
The Worlds Of Yesterday (Risk Magazine)
Vitae
Interview: The World According to Emanuel Derman (Derivatives Strategy)
Portrait of a Rocket Scientist
Goldman Top Quant to Leave Wall Street (Derivatives Week)
Goldman's Head Quant Derman to Retire (Risk)
Risk Magazine Top 50 Hall of Fame

Other Stuff

Links 
Brazilian Mercantile & Futures Exchange: 2nd International Derivatives and Futures Conference
What is Financial Engineering?
Modern Risk Management: A History
Columbia University Masters in Financial Engineering
The International Association of Financial Engineers
SSRN Papers
Joshua Derman     Max Weber Matters