IE 526
IE 526 - Stochastic Calculus in Finance
Spring 2020
Title | Rubric | Section | CRN | Type | Hours | Times | Days | Location | Instructor |
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Stochastic Calculus in Finance | IE526 | F | 53010 | LCD | 4 | 1100 - 1220 | T R | 106B1 Engineering Hall | Richard B Sowers Martin Widdicks |
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Official Description
Course Description
Stochastic calculus is the foundation of financial engineering. IE 526 covers the basics of stochastic calculus and its applications in financial engineering. This course is restricted to the Master of Science in Financial Engineering students. The materials covered in IE 526 include: basics of derivative securities, no arbitrage pricing, binomial model and risk neutral valuation, conditional expectation, stochastic process, Brownian motion, Ito formula, Black-Scholes-Merton model and risk neutral valuation, Greeks, Fourier methods for options valuation, PDE approach and numerical solution, volatility smiles, stochastic volatility and jump models, change of numeraire, American options valuation, and jump process and Ito formula. The course usually comes with a project. Computer programming in C/C++ is required for the implementation. Prerequisite: IE 525.