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Time value of money, bonds, mortgages, and annuities |
hw1 |
2 |
Duration, convexity, and immunization |
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3 |
The yield curve, forward rate, and spot rate |
hw2 |
4 |
Option pricing theory and its wide-ranging applications |
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5 |
The combinatorics of random walks |
hw3 |
6 |
Martingale, Brownian motion, stochastic calculus, and Ito integral |
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7 |
Risk-neutral valuation |
hw4 |
8 |
Risk management |
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9 |
Fixed-income securities with embedded options and interest rate derivatives |
hw5 |
10 |
Mortgage-backed securities (MBS) |
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11 |
Numerical methods - Monte Carlo methods |
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12 |
(Midterm Exam) |
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13 |
Numerical methods - Quasi-Monte Carlo method |
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14 |
Numerical methods - Solving partial differential equations |
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15 |
Numerical methods - Yield curve fitting |
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16 |
(Final Exam) |
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17 |
GARCH models |
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18 |
Interest rate models and calibration |
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