ST439 Half Unit
Stochastics for Derivatives Modelling
This information is for the 2016/17 session.
Teacher responsible
Dr Beatrice Acciaio COL 6.02
Availability
This course is compulsory on the MSc in Risk and Stochastics. This course is available on the MSc in Financial Mathematics, MSc in Statistics (Financial Statistics) and MSc in Statistics (Financial Statistics) (Research). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.
Pre-requisites
Students must have completed Stochastic Processes (ST409).
Course content
Valuation and hedging of derivative securities: general principles of mathematical finance; asset price models; static vs dynamic option pricing; connection with PDEs; exotic options; volatility derivatives; mean-variance hedging.
Teaching
20 hours of lectures and 10 hours of seminars in the LT.
During week 6 students will carry out group work, solving problems that will have been set in an earlier class.
Formative coursework
Weekly homework will be set. Students are not expected to submit this homework but will go over the exercises in the following seminar with the lecturer.
Indicative reading
Steven Shreve, Stochastic Calculus for Finance II: Continuous-Time Models, Springer.
Selected papers from scientific journals.
Thorsten Rheinlander and Jenny Sexton, Hedging Derivatives, World Scientific.
Assessment
Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.
Student performance results
(2012/13 - 2014/15 combined)
| Classification | % of students |
|---|---|
| Distinction | 44.2 |
| Merit | 14.2 |
| Pass | 25.7 |
| Fail | 15.9 |
Key facts
Department: Statistics
Total students 2015/16: 41
Average class size 2015/16: 41
Controlled access 2015/16: No
Value: Half Unit
Personal development skills
- Problem solving
- Application of information skills
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