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B029675 - PORTFOLIO CHOICE AND BOND MARKETS
Principali informazioni
Lingua Insegnamento
Contenuto del corso
Libri di testo consigliati
Obiettivi Formativi
Prerequisiti
Metodi Didattici
Altre Informazioni
Modalità di verifica apprendimento
Programma del corso
Anno Accademico 2020-21
Anno di corso
Secondo Anno - Primo Semestre
Dipartimento di Afferenza
Scienze per l'Economia e l'Impresa
Tipo insegnamento
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Settore Scientifico disciplinare
SECS-S/06 - METODI MATEMATICI DELL'ECONOMIA E DELLE SCIENZE ATTUARIALI E FINANZIARIE
Crediti Formativi
12
Ore Didattica
96
Periodo didattico
14/09/2020 ⇒ 09/12/2020
Frequenza Obbligatoria
No
Tipo Valutazione
Voto Finale
Contenuto del corso
mostra
Programma del corso
mostra
Docenza
- Parte A VILLANACCI ANTONIO
- Parte B GERONAZZO LUCIO
Lingua Insegnamento
INGLESE
Lingua Insegnamento - Parte B
INGLESE
Contenuto del corso
Some topics from Calculus 1: sequences, series, integration. Linear algebra. Some topology in metric
spaces. Di¤erential calculus in Euclidean spaces. Nonlinear programming.
spaces. Di¤erential calculus in Euclidean spaces. Nonlinear programming.
Contenuto del corso - Parte B
The Bond Market section of the course presents the basic models for the pricing of financial instruments which value is related to the interest rate. Forward rate agreements, Eurodollar Futures and Bonds are the analized in detail. The course will deal also with the strategies that can be implemented in order to face and contrast the interest rate risk.
Libri di testo consigliati (Cerca nel catalogo della biblioteca)
Villanacci, A., (2018), Basic Topics in Mathematics for Economics, Class Notes. Available on line on the e-learning website.
Libri di testo consigliati - Parte B (Cerca nel catalogo della biblioteca)
The learning material for the Bond Market section of the course will be made available from the teacher according to the contents of the lessons.
Obiettivi Formativi
To present main topics in mathematics needed for a good understanding of Microeconomics. Those topics are also needed to study mathematics for Macroeconomics.
Obiettivi Formativi - Parte B
The aim of the Bond Market part of the course is to make confident the students with the financial instruments related to the interest rate, becoming able to price them and to decide the different possible strategies available to contrast the market risk.
Prerequisiti
Topics usually taught in basic course on Calculus 1, i.e.: Sets. Real numbers. Real functions of one real variable; Limits for functions; Continuous functions; Differential calculus.
Prerequisiti - Parte B
The knowledge required for the Bond Market section of the course are all the contents given in the courses of Computational Finance and Quantitative Finance and Derivatives. A good practice in excel is also essential.
Metodi Didattici
Class lectures.
Metodi Didattici - Parte B
The Bond Market part of the course is organized in classroom lessons and excel sections.
Altre Informazioni
Notes and other class material on elearning website of the course.
Modalità di verifica apprendimento
Written exams. REMOTE EXAM. See moodle website of the course for further information.
Modalità di verifica apprendimento - Parte B
A final oral exam is the way to verify the level of knowledge obtained by the student in the Bond Market part of the course, giving him a grade. During the exam the student has to demonstrate also his ability in building up specific excel models assigned by the teacher during the course.
Programma del corso
See Table of Content of the Class Notes.
Programma del corso - Parte B
BOND MARKETS
- Valuation of cash flows and zero coupon bonds.
-Term structures
-Bond Performance Indexes.
-Forward rates.
-Forward rate agreements and Eurodollars futures.
-Floating rate bonds.
-The Italian Government Bond Market.
-Interest rate risk, duration, convexity.
-Basis Point value, volatility of a bond and dollar duration.
-Financial immunization.
-Swaps and swap rates.
-Effects of the financial crisis on the valuation of swaps.
-Convertible bonds.
- Valuation of cash flows and zero coupon bonds.
-Term structures
-Bond Performance Indexes.
-Forward rates.
-Forward rate agreements and Eurodollars futures.
-Floating rate bonds.
-The Italian Government Bond Market.
-Interest rate risk, duration, convexity.
-Basis Point value, volatility of a bond and dollar duration.
-Financial immunization.
-Swaps and swap rates.
-Effects of the financial crisis on the valuation of swaps.
-Convertible bonds.