93089 - Introduction To Financial Derivatives And Hedging

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics and Finance (cod. 8835)

Learning outcomes

This course introduces students to the concepts of financial risks and to the techniques used to manage those risks using financial derivatives. After showing how to measure risk and its impact on the firm’s business, the course illustrates the functioning of derivatives, such as forward and futures, swaps and options, and their use to hedge financial risks.

Readings/Bibliography

Options, futures, and other derivatives, 11 edition, John C. Hull.

Teaching methods

lectures in person

Assessment methods

written exam

Teaching tools

slides

Office hours

See the website of Filippo Massari