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Financial Risk Management - ECO00021M

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  • Department: Economics and Related Studies
  • Module co-ordinator: Prof. Weining Wang
  • Credit value: 10 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2021-22
    • See module specification for other years: 2022-23

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Spring Term 2021-22 to Summer Term 2021-22

Module aims

To give students an understanding of the instruments used for financial risk management in practice, based on the theory of continuous time finance and derivative pricing. Risk-neutral and forward neutral valuation. Martingales Applications: portfolio insurance; hedging basic business exposures. Departures from log normality: fat tailed distributions; behaviour in extremis. Applications: management of interest and exchange rate risk; the volatility smile ; VaR.

Module learning outcomes

 

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Online Exam - 24 hrs (Centrally scheduled)
Financial Risk Management		 8 hours 100

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Online Exam - 24 hrs (Centrally scheduled)
Financial Risk Management		 8 hours 100

Module feedback

Students will receive feedback on their closed exam within the University's Policy on Assessment Feedback Turnaround Time (20 working days).  Following the release of their marks, cohort feedback will also be published on the Departmental website and student will have the opportunity to view their exam scripts at supervised Feedback Sessions.

Indicative reading

The basis of this module is provided by:

Hull, J.C., Options, Futures and other Derivatives, 7th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2008.

Supplementary reading:

Duffie, D. and Singleton, K., Credit Risk, Princeton, 2003.


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