mat355 - Elementary Stochastic Processes and Finance (Complete module description)
Module label | Elementary Stochastic Processes and Finance |
Module code | mat355 |
Credit points | 6.0 KP |
Workload | 180 h |
Institute directory | Department of Mathematics |
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Module contents | Interest rates, zero coupon bonds, price formula, numeraire, financial instruments, term structure, underlyings and financial derivatives, financial market, no free lunch condition, options of European and American type, binomial model by Cox, Ross and Rubinstein, price formula for simple options; Conditional expectation, martingales in discrete time, Brownian motion; stochastic interest rate models, Black-Scholes model, Black-Scholes formula and PDE |
Recommended reading | Albrecher, Binder, Mayer: Einführung in die Finanzmathematik, Birkhäuser, 2009 Kellerhals, Asset Pricing, Springer, 2004 Brzezniak, Zastawniak: Basic Stochastic Processes, Springer SUMS, 1999 Koch, Medina, Merino: Mathematical Finance and Probability, Birkhäuser, 2003 Etheridge, A Course in Financial Calculus, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002 |
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Languages of instruction | German, English |
Duration (semesters) | 1 Semester |
Module frequency | jährlich |
Module capacity | unlimited |
Type of course | Comment | SWS | Frequency | Workload of compulsory attendance |
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Lecture | 3 | SuSe or WiSe | 42 | |
Exercises | 1 | SuSe or WiSe | 14 | |
Total module attendance time | 56 h |
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Final exam of module | nach Ende der Vorlesungszeit |
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