D0132 - JUMP PROCESSES FOR FINANCIAL MODELS

Academic Year 2026/2027

  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Quantitative Finance (cod. 6692)

Learning outcomes

This course explores classical and modern jump processes and the financial models built upon them. By the end of the course, students will understand the concepts of infinite divisibility and Lévy processes, and how these combine into factor-based models and other advanced asset pricing frameworks.

Course contents

  • Infinitely divisible distributions
  • Lévy processes
  • Jump diffusions
  • Levy-Driven autoregressive processes
  • Additive and self similar processes
  • Financial models based on the above
  • Office hours

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