Derivatives and Risk Management

This course covers two main topics in finance: financial derivatives and risk management. The course provides an overview of the derivatives markets. It covers arbitrage, hedging, speculating, and other trading strategies. The course also teaches students how to price forward contracts, call and put options using discrete time and continuous time models for options. In particular, the course covers the binomial option pricing model and the Black-Scholes option pricing model. In addition to financial derivatives, the course also provides a comprehensive treatment of the theoretical concepts and modeling techniques of modern risk management. The course covers methods for market, credit, and operational risk modeling. Although the course draws on methods and techniques from financial economics and statistics, the focus is mainly practical. The objective is to equip students with relevant techniques to measure and manage risk in practice. Prerequisites: MGMT 560