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Academic year 2014-2015Value date : 12/05/2015
MQGE0007-1  Financial Mathematics and Stochastic Calculus

Duration :  30h Th
Number of credits :  
Master degree in Business Engineering, professional focus in Financial Engineering, 2nd year5
Lecturer :  Louis Esch
Language(s) of instruction :  
English language
Organisation and examination :  
Teaching in the second semester
Course contents :  
The bases of probability theory and stochastic processes are introduced. Then, two famiiles of applications are presented : - Continuious time stochastic finance (stochastic calculus, option pricing models, interest rate models) ; - Risk theory in non-life insurance (compound Poisson process, collective risk process, ruin probability, tarification principles).
Learning outcomes of the course :  
- Give the rigorous mathematical bases of stochastic processes and stochastic calculus. - Apply these bases to some financial and actuarial models. Intended Learning Outcomes addressed by the course :
  • Strengthening knowledge and understanding of basic management disciplines in order to use them to perform a rigorous analysis of a management situation and provide pertinent solutions
  • Gaining the knowledge and understanding of the fields of financial engineering
  • Understanding and being capable of using modelization methods, applied to the financial field
  • Developing a transversal, global vision
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
- Basic probability theory ; - Financial securities (interest rates, derivatives).
Planned learning activities and teaching methods :  
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
face-to-face
Recommended or required readings :  
- KAAS R., GOOVAERTS M., DHAENE J., DENUIT M., Modern actuarial risk theory, Kluwers Academic Publishers, 2001. - KENNEDY D., Stochastic financial models, Chapman & Hall, 2010. - MIKOSCH T., Elementary stochastic calculus with finance in view, World Scientific, 1998. These readings are recommended, not required
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Written exam.
Work placement(s) :  
Organizational remarks :  
Contacts :  
Louis Esch HEC-Ecole de gestion de l'Université de Liège (bâtiment N1) Tél : 04/232.73.00 e-mail : louis.esch@ulg.ac.be

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