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PRICING MONEY: A Beginner’s Guide to Money, Bonds, Futures and Swaps
is an introduction to the fixed-income markets. It explains the purpose and design of the most important financial instruments, including deposits, bonds, futures and swaps, and how these instruments are used by the various players in the financial system.
The book is for new recruits and potential new recruits in financial markets (consider reading it before rather than after the interview), as well as accountants, lawyers, and those wishing to understand finance.
The style is engaging, accessible and non-mathematical, and hence comprehensible by those with no prior financial knowledge.
The text of
Chapter 1: Money Markets
and of the
Table of Contents
are available at jdawiseman.com, with the permission of the publisher
Wiley.
Pricing Money can be purchased from
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as well as other bookshops: cite ISBN 978-0-471-48700-5.
Papers at jdawiseman.com
| Date |
Short title |
| June 2008 |
Trigonometry in surds, for integer multiples of 3° and of 5⅝°:
Sin and Cos;
Csc and Sec;
and also the inner radius of n/m stars |
| June 2008 |
Letter to the FT: Libor is both high and low (“Some confusion over Libor levels”) |
| May 2008 |
Paper presented at Cass CBS conference: Term Funding and Implementing Monetary Policy leading to PDF version |
| Apr 2008 |
Letter to the FT: Libor suggestion doubly mistaken |
| Apr 2008 |
The possible stigmatisation of UK Treasury Bills |
| Jan 2008 |
Paper presented at LSE FMG conference: Implementing Monetary Policy leading to PDF version |
| Nov 2007 |
A practical design of a better decanter |
| Sep 2007 |
The BoE’s implentation of monetary policy: dangerous false signals and confused collateral |
| Aug 2007 |
Article in Central Banking: The pretend market for money |
| Jan 2007 |
What malformation did El Greco paint? Paediatricians are asked to help diagnose a mystery condition. |
| Dec 2006 |
NHL scoring: an overtime result should be 1-0 not 2-1 |
| Nov 2006 |
Letter to the FT: Three ways the US Treasury could repair the bonds market |
| Sep 2006 |
Bonds: too many; too small, or why government debt issuers should re-open more than they do |
| Aug 2006 |
The 30-year Mbono: recommendations |
| Dec 2005 |
A list of HTML character entities and PostScript glyphs (all unicode characters) |
| Nov 2005 |
Two examples of unusual voting systems |
| Nov 2005 |
Algorithm justifying that the expected value of sn/n ≈ 0.79295350640… |
| Sep 2005 |
Glasses placemat: how to avoid confusion at a port tasting (code parameters, reusable code routines) |
| Jan 2005 |
Reply to UK DMO’s consultation about an ultra-long gilt |
| June 2003 |
Tournament designs, such as all-play-all, carry-over and individual-pairs (update; first uploaded Dec 00) |
| May 2002 |
Round EMU conversion rates |
| Feb 2002 |
Web-safe colours, also in compact and HSL presentations |
| Jan 2002 |
Some elementary thoughts on the maturity at which a government should borrow |
| Jan 2002 |
A new design of bond future |
| Dec 2001 |
The colours and letters of futures maturities |
| Nov 2001 |
The distillery numbers of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society |
| Nov 2001 |
How the UK can stop spam without damaging free speech |
| Oct 2001 |
Reply to UK DMO’s consultation about a new design of index-linked gilt |
| Oct 2001 |
Various non-intuitive features of electoral systems (update; first uploaded Jan 00) |
| Oct 2001 |
A map of Jet Set Willy II, the classic ZX Spectrum platform game, with a recommended route, and comments from the programmer |
| Sep 2001 |
Chapter 1: Money Markets
and the
Table of Contents
of
Pricing Money: A Beginner’s Guide to Money, Bonds, Futures and Swaps |
| Sep 2001 |
PR-Squared: A New Description, superseding previous descriptions |
| July 2001 |
Apportionment, or How to Round Seat Numbers |
| Feb 2001 |
Queens’ Courtiers: a board game for two players |
| Mar 2000 |
Official Intervention In The ‘Specials’: the DMO’s decision |
| Mar 2000 |
A postscript to the ‘Dear Aunty’ letter, on the subject of pension savings |
| Feb 2000 |
The Bank of England and the Sterling Money Markets: A Critique |
| Dec 1999 |
A letter to my Aunt, dated 7th March 1997, explaining why EMU is such a bad idea |
| Nov 1999 |
How to draw the flag of the United Kingdom — accurately |
| Sep 1999 |
Official Intervention In The ‘Specials’: letter of 20th September 1999 |
| June 1999 |
How to find one differently-weighted object from amongst (3w–3)/2 using only w weighings |
| May 1999 |
Non-farm payrolls: a diary |
| May 1999 |
A Market-Based Exchange Rate Mechanism |
| Apr 1999 |
Switch Auctionettes |
| Apr 1999 |
Official Intervention In The ‘Specials’ |
| Mar 1999 |
The Dutch Sequential Auction |
| Mar 1999 |
A Better Auction Mechanism, And Why Governments Should Sell Futures Rather Than Debt |
| Mar 1999 |
A Criticism Of The Jenkins Report |
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