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Financial Risk Analysis and Management Graduate, Certificate Quantitative Methods in Finance Graduate Certificate
Full Time
Asset returns and their volatilities. Markowitz portfolio theory, capital asset pricing model, multifactor pricing models. Measures of market risk and statistical models and methods for their estimation and backtesting. Financial derivatives and hedging. Black-Scholes pricing of European options and implied volatilities.
Prerequisites
Familiarity with theory of probability (Stanford Course STATS116) or equivalent.
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Course Availability
This course is typically offered Summer quarter.
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