93091 - FINANCIAL ECONOMICS

Anno Accademico 2023/2024

  • Docente: Filippo Massari
  • Crediti formativi: 8
  • SSD: SECS-P/01
  • Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
  • Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Laurea in Economics and Finance (cod. 8835)

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

This course primarily focuses on the identification of financial assets' fair prices. First, the course introduces students to the main theories of portfolio choice and risk-expected return trade-off in financial markets: the mean-variance portfolio choice, CAPM, APT, Fama-French models. Second, the course introduces the students to the main models and techniques that are used to analyze fixed income securities. Starting from basic concepts such as the yield curve, yield-to-maturity, duration, convexity, the course introduces portfolio hedging strategies based on duration-matching or asset liability management.

Contenuti

First, the course introduces the students to the problem of managing a portfolio.

- the mean-variance portfolio choice,

- CAPM,

- APT, Fama-French models.

Second, the course introduces the students to the main models and techniques that are used to analyze fixed income securities.

- Starting from basic concepts such as the yield curve, yield-to-maturity, duration, convexity, the course introduces portfolio hedging strategies based on duration-matching or asset liability management.

Third, the course introduces options pricing

Fourth, the course expose the students to the main behavioural finance findings in teh current literature

Testi/Bibliografia

Bodie, Kane and Marcus (2011), Investments, McGraw-Hill

Metodi didattici

Lezioni frontali, homeworks

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

mid-term+final exam

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

slides, Homeworks

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Filippo Massari