37285 - Workshop in Quantitative Finance

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Quantitative Finance (cod. 8409)

Learning outcomes

The aim is to offer an overview on several very recent research topics in Quantitative Finance.

Course contents

New Risk Measures in Higher Dimension (prof. Dominique Guegan, University Paris 1 Sorbonne)

 GARCH Modeling and Factor Models: Theory for Implementation in Portfolio Selection and CAPM Modeling (prof. Anders Rahbek, University of Copenhagen)

Econometric Analysis of Networks (prof. Christian Brownlees, University Pompeu Fabra)

Modern Interest Rates, including funding, collateral and negative rates environment (Dr Marco Bianchetti, Intesa Sanpaolo)

Nonlinear Time Series Analysis: an Introduction (prof. Howell Tong, London School of Economics) 

Time Varying Parametes Models (prof. Siem-Jan Koopman, University of Amsterdam)

 

Readings/Bibliography

Material provided by lecturers

Teaching methods

The workshop is divided in five parts: one is taken by the professor that is responsible of the course while the others are taken by professors from other universities on topics in which they are well known experts.

Assessment methods

Attendance is compulsory. Students will be asked to prepare a short essay about one of the modules that will be orally discussed.

Teaching tools

None

Office hours

See the website of Alessandra Luati