311500 Foundations of Modern Financial Economics (Finance 1a) (V) (WiSe 2014/2015)

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The lecture course Finance 1 is the first in a three-semester sequence on mathematical finance. Finance 1 is meant to equip students with a basic understanding of how financial markets work and what the most fundamental techniques for pricing and hedging derivatives are.

The first half of the lecture course (Finance 1a) studies arbitrage arguments, the pricing of financial instruments like options and hedging in discrete-time (one-period and binomial multi-period) stochastic market models. The second half (Finance 1b) studies dynamic models and questions one can only answer within this class of models. We consider American options and hedging techniques in incomplete markets like super- and quantile hedging. We will also start a discussion of risk management.

Subsequent lecture courses in this module (viz. Finance 2-3) will be devoted to the economic theory of financial markets and more advanced continuous-time models, developed within classical stochastic analysis.

Requirements for participation, required level

Basic microeconomics and probability

Bibliography

J.C. Hull: Options, futures, and other derivatives. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 6 edition, 2006.

H. Föllmer, A. Schied, Stochastic finance. Springer, Berlin, 2004.

S.F. LeRoy, J. Werner: Principles of financial economics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2001.

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31-M-El1 Elective Courses 1 Gewählte Veranstaltungen aus dem Bereich "Spezialkenntnisse in ökonomischer Theorie und/oder quantitativen Methoden" 4 LP Student information
31-M-El2 Elective Courses 2 Gewählte Veranstaltungen aus dem Bereich quantitativen Methoden 4 LP Student information
31-M-El3 Elective Courses 3 Gewählte Veranstaltungen aus dem Bereich ökonomischer Theorie 4 LP Student information
31-M-Fin1 Finance 1 Finance 1 Student information
31-MM5 Finanzmarkttheorie Foundations of Modern Financial Economics Student information
31-MM5-WiMa Finanzmarkttheorie Foundations of Modern Financial Economics Student information

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Degree programme/academic programme Validity Variant Subdivision Status Semester LP  
Bielefeld Graduate School in Theoretical Sciences / Promotion    
Economic Behavior and Interaction Models / Promotion    
Economics and Management (BiGSEM) / Promotion    
Studieren ab 50    
Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Master (Enrollment until SoSe 2012) Modul 5; Modul 12; Modul 16   4 Themengebiet 5a oder 12k  

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