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Chapter 3. Metallgesellschaft AG

Illusion of Profits and Losses, Reality of Cash Flows

John E. Marthinsen

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Chapters in this book

Frontmatter I
About De/G PRESS VII
Acknowledgments IX
Contents XI
Preface XXI
Chapter 1. Primer on Derivatives 1
Chapter 2. Employee Stock Options 21
Chapter 3. Metallgesellschaft AG 51
Chapter 4. Swaps That Shook an Industry 77
Chapter 5. Orange County 109
Chapter 6. Barings Bank PLC 143
Chapter 7. Long-Term Capital Mismanagement 175
Chapter 8. Amaranth Advisors LLC 217
Chapter 9. Société Générale and Rogue Trader Jérôme Kerviel 259
Chapter 10. AIG: Two Roads to Ruin 287
Chapter 11. JPMorgan Chase and the “London Whale” 323
Index 351

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781547400034-003

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter I
About De/G PRESS VII
Acknowledgments IX
Contents XI
Preface XXI
Chapter 1. Primer on Derivatives 1
Chapter 2. Employee Stock Options 21
Chapter 3. Metallgesellschaft AG 51
Chapter 4. Swaps That Shook an Industry 77
Chapter 5. Orange County 109
Chapter 6. Barings Bank PLC 143
Chapter 7. Long-Term Capital Mismanagement 175
Chapter 8. Amaranth Advisors LLC 217
Chapter 9. Société Générale and Rogue Trader Jérôme Kerviel 259
Chapter 10. AIG: Two Roads to Ruin 287
Chapter 11. JPMorgan Chase and the “London Whale” 323
Index 351

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