EP 016 Emanuel Derman

Published: Jan. 11, 2016, 1 a.m.

b'Emanuel Derman first had a successful career as a particle physicist, and then an even more\\xa0 successful career on Wall Street, doing advanced mathematical modeling of financial instrument prices and volatility. Currently, he is a professor at Columbia University, where he directs the program in financial engineering. He’s the author of My Life as a Quant and Models.Behaving.Badly.
\\nToday, we talk about the differences between models & theories, finance & physics, and life & experiments. We look under the hood of the Black-Scholes[-Merton] option pricing formula, talk about the gaps in classical and behavioral financial models, and find out what he would change about his life if he could live it again.
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