Course Details
Introduction: General introduction to financial markets: Bonds, Annuities, Equities, Derivatives. Time Value of Money (TVM), Yield Curves. Utility Theory & Risk: Expected Utility Hypothesis, Risk aversion coefficients, Certainty Equivalence, Log vs. Power Utility. Portfolio Theory: Mean-variance analysis, Portfolio Return & Variance matrices, The Efficient Frontier, Two-fund separation theorem. CAPM & Extensions: Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Capital Market Line (CML), Security Market Line (SML), Beta estimation. Discrete Time Models I: One-Period Binomial Model, The No-Arbitrage Principle, Replicating Portfolios, Risk-neutral probabilities. Discrete Time Models II: Multi-period Binomial Trees, Martingales in discrete time, Pricing American vs. European Options. Stochastic Processes I: Random walks, Scaled limits, Standard Brownian Motion (Wiener Process) properties. Stochastic Processes II: Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM), Itô’s Lemma (heuristic derivation), Lognormal distribution of prices. Continuous Pricing: Derivation of the Black-Scholes-Merton PDE and Formula. Assumptions and limitations. The Greeks & Hedging: Delta, Gamma, Vega, Theta, Rho. Dynamic Delta-Neutral Hedging strategies. Volatility & Calibration: Implied Volatility (IV), Newton-Raphson for IV, The Volatility Smile/Skew. Advanced Processes: Poisson Processes, Jump-Diffusion Models (Merton), Fat-tailed distributions. Rates & Mean Reversion: Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Process, Vasicek Model for Interest Rates. Risk Management: Value at Risk (VaR) concepts (Parametric vs. Historical), Expected Shortfall, GARCH volatility forecasting.
Course References:
Text Books
1. J. Hull, Options, Futures and Derivatives, 10th Edition (Indian), Pearson, US, 2018.
2. M. J. Capinski and T. Zastawniak, Mathematics for Finance: An Introduction to Financial Engineering, 2nd Edition, Springer Verlag, London, 2011.
3. M. J. Capinski and E. Kopp, Portfolio Theory and Risk Management, Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Reference Books
1. P. Wilmott, Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance, 2nd Edition, John Wiley & Sons, US, 2013.
2. J. C. Francis and D. Kim, Modern Portfolio Theory: Foundations, Analysis, and New Developments, John Wiley and Sons, 2013.
3. Y. Hilpisch, Python for Finance: Mastering Data-Driven Finance, O'Reilly Media, 2018.