Official QuantLib Documentation
- QuantLib reference manual [HTML]
The reference manual is also available for offline reading from the
SourceForge download
page.
Other information
Books
- Luigi Ballabio, Implementing QuantLib
Available as an ebook from Leanpub.
Drafts are also posted on the
accompanying blog.
- Vasily Nekrasov, Notes on Getting Started with QuantLib (unfinished)
Available from his web site.
- Goutham Balaraman and Luigi Ballabio, QuantLib Python Cookbook (in progress)
Available as an ebook from Leanpub.
Slides
- Dimitri Reiswich contributed the slides he used
during a course he taught, along with the corresponding code:
Boost introduction
[PDF]
QuantLib introduction, part I
[PDF]
QuantLib introduction, part II
[PDF]
code samples
[ZIP]
- Marco Marchioro has made available the slides for
his derivatives class at Milan University, in which he uses QuantLibXL
for teaching. They can be downloaded from the Advanced
Derivatives page on his
site, http://www.marchioro.org/,
along with the corresponding spreadsheets and additional material.
Videos
- The QuantLib Notebooks
is a
series of screencasts by Luigi Ballabio using IPython notebooks to
demonstrate features of the QuantLib library. It is also available
on Vimeo.
- Introduction to QuantLib is
another series
of screencasts by Felix Lee, covering installation and usage of
the library.
- A
different series
of screencasts, also called Introduction to
QuantLib, is published by Carol Zheng.
- A Look at QuantLib Usage and Development is the
recording of a
one-day workshop given by Luigi Ballabio for Quants Hub. It is
available for purchase separately or as part of their subscription
service.
Talks
- Introduction to QuantLib
is a talk by Robert Hardy for Skills Matter
that introduces QuantLib and QuantLibXL and gives a few examples of
their use.
- Introduction to QuantLib and Using QuantLib
Programmatically is a talk by
Bojan Nikolic for Skills Matter that shows examples of using QuantLib
from other languages.
Blogs
- Useful QuantLib-related posts appear in a number of blogs:
Klaus Spanderen's blog;
Peter Caspers's blog;
Bojan Nikolic's blog;
Édouard Tallent's blog;
Cogito Learning's blog;
Mick Hittesdorf's blog;
John Orford's blog;
Luigi Ballabio's blog;
Matthias Groncki's blog.
Goutham Balaraman's blog.
Mikael Katajamäki's blog.
Conference proceedings
- The QuantLib User
Meeting 2017 was held in Düsseldorf on November
30th, 2017, thanks to the sponsorship of
IKB,
Quaternion and
d-fine.
- The QuantLib User Meetings 2016 were
held in London on July 12th, 2016,
thanks to the sponsorship
of Quaternion, and in
Düsseldorf on December 7th and 8th,
2016, thanks to the sponsorship of
IKB,
Quaternion and
d-fine.
- The QuantLib User
Meeting 2015 was held in Düsseldorf on November 30th
and December 1st, 2015, thanks to the sponsorship of
IKB
and CompatibL.
- The QuantLib User
Meeting 2014 was held in Düsseldorf on December 4th
and 5th, 2014, thanks to the sponsorship of
IKB.
- The QuantLib User
Meeting 2013 was held in Düsseldorf on November 13th
and 14th, 2013, thanks to the sponsorship of
IKB,
Quaternion and
d-fine.
- The first QuantLib
forum was held in London on January 18th, 2011, thanks to
the sponsorship of StatPro.
Papers
- Farmer's CMS Spread Option Formula for Negative Rates
[abstract/download]
Peter Caspers (2015)
- Derivatives Pricing using QuantLib: An Introduction
[abstract/download]
Jayanth R. Varma, Vineet Virmani (2015)
- Implementation of the ZABR Model
[abstract/download]
Peter Caspers (2013)
- Markov Functional One Factor Interest Rate Model
Implementation in QuantLib
[abstract/download]
Peter Caspers (2013)
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Multiple
Interest Rate Curve Bootstrapping but Were Afraid to Ask
[abstract/download]
Ferdinando Ametrano, Marco Bianchetti (2013)
- Option Engine: A Grid-Enabled Software Package to Evaluate
Financial Options [HTML]
Francesca Mariani, Maria Cristina Recchioni, Francesco Zirilli
HPCwire (September 2009)
- Bootstrapping the Illiquidity: Multiple Yield Curves
Construction for Market Coherent Forward Rates Estimation
[abstract]
Ferdinando Ametrano, Marco Bianchetti
In Modelling
Interest Rates, Fabio Mercurio, ed., Risk Books, Incisive
Media, 2009.
- Smooth Simultaneous Calibration of the LMM to Caplets and Coterminal Swaptions
[abstract/download]
Ferdinando Ametrano, Mark S. Joshi (2008)
- Why Use QuantLib? [PDF]
Firth, N.P. (2004)
Press
- Four years of open source financial models [PDF]
Wilmott Magazine (September 2004)