Vinzenz Bronzin’s Option Pricing Models

Chapter 1 Vinzenz Bronzin — Personal Life and Work

Chapter 2 Stefan Zweig: A Representative Voice of the Time

Chapter 3 How I Discovered Bronzin’s Book

Chapter 4 Facsimile of Bronzin’s Original Treatise

Chapter 5 Translation of Bronzin’s Treatise

Chapter 6 Introduction

Chapter 7 A Review and Evaluation of Bronzin’s Contribution from a Financial Economics Perspective

Chapter 8 Probabilistic Roots of Financial Modelling: A Historical Perspective

Chapter 9 The Contribution of the Social-Economic Environment to the Creation of Bronzin’s “Theory of Premium Contracts”

Chapter 10 Introduction

Chapter 11 The Late Habsburg Monarchy — Economic Spurt or Delayed Modernization?

Chapter 12 A Change in the Paradigm for Teaching Mathematics

Chapter 13 Review of Bronzin’s Book in the “Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik”

Chapter 14 Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik — A Showcase of the Culture of Mathematicians in the Habsburgian-Hungarian Empire During the Period from 1890 until 1914

Chapter 15 The Certainty of Risk in the Markets of Uncertainty

Chapter 16 Introduction

Chapter 17 Speculation and Security. The Financial World in Trieste in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century

Chapter 18 The Cultural Landscape of Trieste at the Beginning of the 20 th Century — an Essay

Chapter 19 Trieste: A Node of the Actuarial Network in the Early 1900s

Chapter 20 Introduction

Chapter 21 A Short History of Derivative Security Markets

Chapter 22 Retrospective Book Review on James Moser: “Die Lehre von den Zeitgeschäften und deren Combinationen” (1875)

Chapter 23 The History of Option Pricing and Hedging

Chapter 24 The Early History of Option Contracts

Chapter 25 Bruno de Finetti, Actuarial Sciences and the Theory of Finance in the 20th Century

Chapter 26 The Origins of Expected Utility Theory

Chapter 27 An Early Structured Product: Illustrative Pricing of Repeat Contracts