Advanced Methods in Finance
Wrocław, 21-22.11.2003

Plan zajęć / Course outline


Wykładowcy / Lecturers
Ying Chen (Berlin), Wolfgang Haerdle (Berlin)

(Lectures and discussion classes will be held in English)

Ze względu na ograniczoną liczbę miejsc w laboratorium komputerowym osoby zainteresowane proszone są o zarejestrowanie się poprzez wysłanie emaila - zawierającego imię i nazwisko, stanowisko oraz firmę/uczelnię - do Rafała Werona (rweron@im.pwr.wroc.pl)

FRIDAY, 21 NOV. 2003, building C11, room 5.05 (lecture room)

17:00-18:30 Introduction to XploRe
Web based computing; Quantlets
Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model (login: sfe, pass: student)
The Stock Price as a Stochastic Process; Black-Scholes Differential Equation; Black-Scholes Formulae for European Options; Risk Management and Hedging; Delta Hedging; Greeks; Historical and Implied Volatility

SATURDAY, 22 NOV. 2003, building C11, room 4.04 (computer lab)

09:00-10:30 Working with XploRe
Libraries; e-books
The Analysis of Implied Volatilities
The Implied Volatility Surface; Dynamic Analysis
11:00-12:30 How Precise Are Price Distributions Predicted by IBT?
Implied Binomial Trees; A Simulation and a Comparison of the SPDs; Example - Analysis of DAX data
American Options (login: sfe, pass: student)
Arbitrage Relations for American Options; Trinomial Processes; The Trinomial Model for American Options
13:30-15:00 Exotic Options (login: sfe, pass: student)
Examples of Exotic Options; Compound Options, Options on Options; Chooser Options or "As You Like It" Options; Barrier Options; Asian Options; Lookback Options

Last modified on 2003-11-12.