January 2nd, 2004, 12:11 pm
It follows a particular approach to dealing with the peculiarities of energy, which is mostly intuitive and tree based. They spend a lot of time trying to make the bits and a pieces of Schwartz's(1997) nested commodity pricing models practical, which I find a useful exercise. The book could have done with greater detail on the pracitalities of energy structures - I prefer to see more hypothetical contracts worked through, which is one of the reasons I like Alexander Eydeland's book so much. To get the most out of their book, you probably have to buy their Implementing Derivatives Models (1998 I think) as well. I would also say that a more in depth discussion of volatility in an energy context would be appreciated, and correlation seems to be an ugly stepsister in the book.Still, over all, ~7/10. Oh, it's expensive, and you have to buy it from them.