Satyajit Das works in the area of financial derivatives and risk management. He is the author of a number of key reference works on derivatives and risk management include Swaps/ Financial Derivatives Library – Third Edition (2005, John Wiley & Sons) (a 4 volume 4,200 page reference work for practitioners on derivatives) and Credit Derivatives, CDOs and Structured Credit Products –Third Edition (2005, John Wiley & Sons). He is the author of Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives (2006, FT-Prentice Hall), described by the Financial Times, London as " fascinating reading … explaining not only the high-minded theory behind the business and its various products but the sometimes sordid reality of the industry". He is also the author (with Jade Novakovic) of In Search of the Pangolin: The Accidental Eco-Tourist (2006, New Holland).
Recent Blog Posts by Satyajit Das
- There are No Currency Wars! We Are Just Devaluing
- The End of Growth?
- Is Cyprus More Important Than You Think?
- The Cyprus File
- Australia’s Economic Outlook—The Nauru Option?
- Europe’s Debt Crisis Endgames—Stealth Solutions
- The Setting Sun – Japan’s Forgotten Debt Problems
- L’Age d’Or – Part 2: “Golden Memories”
- L’Age d’Or – Part 1: ‘A Barbarous Relic’
- America’s Fiscal Cliff
- ZIRP and QE: Central Bankers’ Narcotics of Choice
- Mr. Global Economy – Health Check
- The LIBOR Fix – Part 2
- The LIBOR Fix – Part 1
- ‘Super Brussels’ Saves the World, Again Maybe!
- The Euro-Zone Debt Crisis – It’s Now ABOUT Germany, NOT UP TO Germany
- The Spanish ‘Bailout’, Whoops – ‘Assistance’!
- The Great Pretender–India’s Economic Past and Future: Part 3, Political Atrophy
- The Great Pretender–India’s Economic Past and Future: Part 2, A Sea of Troubles
- The Great Pretender–India’s Economic Past and Future: Part 1, ‘India Shining’
- Topiary Lessons – JP Morgan’s US $2 billion Loss
- The European Debt Crisis Redux
- All Feasts Must Come to an End: Fake Goods, Fake Growth? Part 3
- All Feasts Must Come to an End: China’s Debt and Investment Fueled Growth – Part 2
- All Feasts Must Come to an End: China’s Debt & Investment Fuelled Growth, Part 1
- The Economist’s Take on Financial Innovation
- It’s All Greek to Me
- ‘Vulnerable to External Influences’ – The Economic State of Australia (Part 2)
- ‘Vulnerable to External Influences’ – The Economic State of Australia (Part I)
- Europe’s Road to Nowhere (Part 2)
- Europe’s Road to Nowhere (Part 1)
- Eurozone Leaders Rendezvous at ‘The Last Chance Saloon’?
- The Main Event – The U.S. Debt Crisis
- In the Matter of Lehman Brothers – Part 2: Well Structured Messes
- In the Matter of Lehman Brothers – Part 1: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
- Central Counter Party Tranquillizer Solutions
- Europe’s Plan To End the Debt Crisis Can’t and Won’t Work – Part 2
- Europe’s Plan to End the Debt Crisis Can’t and Won’t Work – Part 1
- Central Counter Party Risk Taming
- Central Counter Party Politics
- The CCP Idea – Will a Central Counter Party Tame Derivatives Market Risks?
- Economic Dystopia – The “Stick Shaker Moment”
- Euro Zone’s Leveraged Solution to Leverage
- From Green to Red – Is Credit Crunch 2.0 Imminent?
- The Real Debt Crisis Is in Europe – Part 2: “Europe’s Long, Long Goodbye”
- The Real Debt Crisis is in Europe Part 1 – ‘Solvency But Not In Our Time’
- Still Stressed After All These Tests!
- Europe’s Debt Crisis that Refuses to Die
- European Debt – Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Treatment
- “Progress” of the European Debt Crisis
- Bailing In to Bail Out – The Greek Bank Debt Exchange Proposal
- Default Semantics – Credit Default Swaps & Greece
- Deflating Inflation / Inflating Deflation
- Economic Uppers & Downers
- Voodoo Economics Redux
- Controlling Sovereign CDS Trading – The Dysfunctional Debate
- The Economic Calculus of Japan’s Tragedy
- European Death Spiral – End Games
- European Death Spiral – Communicable Diseases
- European Death Spiral – Mission Unaccomplished
- Foreign Exchange Rates – The “New” “Old” Weapon of Choice in Trade Wars
- A CDO Cure for Europe
- EFSF-Delusions of Safety
- Wishful Thinking – Part 2
- Wishful Thinking – Part 1
- ‘Swap Tango’ – A Derivative Regulation Dance: Part 2
- ‘Swap Tango’ – A Derivative Regulation Dance: Part 1
- The Greek Job
- Botox Cures – Part 2
- Botox Cures – Part 1
- EMH Funeral Oration
- Interview with Satyajit Das on Derivatives and the Financial Crisis
- Parting the Bamboo Curtain Part 3 – How Long Can China Go On?
- Parting the Bamboo Curtain Part 2 – Rescuing the Dragon
- Parting the Bamboo Curtain Part 1 – The Basis of China’s Growth
- Mark-to-Make Believe
- No Accounting for Taste
- GFC Cures – Placebo Effects
- Third Lesson from the GFC: Built to Fail
- Second Lesson of the GFC: Whatever It Takes!
- First Lesson of the GFC: The End of Ponzi Prosperity
- Banking Fortunes – From “Catastrophic” to Just “Awful!”
- Discourse About Leverage
- CDS Markets – Through The Looking Glass
- I Will Kill You Later! – Product Innovation in Asia
- “Holes in the Ground” – The End of the Commodity Super Cycle
- Oils Ain’t Grains – The Outlook for Commodities
- Surreal Realities of the CDS Markets – Part 2
- Surreal Realities of the CDS Markets – Part 1
- 2009 Prospects – Trench Warfare
- 2008 Review – Look back in Horror!
- Where did all the money disappear? – Liquid Fantasies
- Global Financial System – Calling for the Plumber!
- “We interrupt regular programming to announce that the United States of America has defaulted”
- De-leveraging – There are No Fairy Tale Endings
