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Study Plan
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Laurea magistrale in Banca e finanza - Enrollment from 2025/2026The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Financial risk management (2017/2018)
Teaching code
4S02484
Teacher
Coordinator
Credits
9
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
SECS-S/06 - MATHEMATICAL METHODS OF ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND ACTUARIAL SCIENCES
Period
Primo Semestre Magistrali dal Oct 2, 2017 al Dec 22, 2017.
Learning outcomes
The goal of the Financial Risk Management (2017-18) course is to present the contents of the main quantitative models financial institutions apply to manage the various ways risk arise in financial markets.
Program
Tentative outline for the course is as follows:
1) interest rate risk management
2) coherent measures of risk: Value-at-Risk and Expected Shortfall
3) structural models: Merton (1974), Black and Cox (1976), and Leland (1994)
4) Jarrow, Lando and Turnbull (1997) rating-based model
5) exogenous bankruptcy models
6) KMV model and discriminant analysis
7) Introduction to copula functions. Li (2001) model. Concordance meaures
8) xVA (Value Adjustment) model to evaluate the effect of derivative contracts into banks balance sheets
Author | Title | Publishing house | Year | ISBN | Notes |
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A. F. McNeil, R. Frey, P. Embrechts | Quantitative Risk Management:Concepts, Techniques and Tools | Princeton University Press | 2015 |
Examination Methods
The final exam contains:
a) a project work to be done either singularly or in very small groups of studenti (max 4 points)
b) a written exam composed of two question to be chosen out of the three that will be given (max 28 points)
Before attending the written exam the project work has to be handed in.