FIN 537
Spring 2024 All Classes
Credit: 4 hours.
Covers selected topics in financial risk management. The focus is on statistical techniques used in financial risk management rather than risk management practice, cases, or valuation issues. The course will cover the value-at-risk (VaR) measure and expected shortfall, statistical techniques useful to model financial market returns, and techniques used to model the joint distribution of defaults on fixed income instruments. The course will also cover additional topics such as retail credit risk, risk budgeting, and economic capital modelling.
4 graduate hours. No professional credit. Credit is not given for FIN 537 if the student has received credit for FIN 567 Financial Risk Management (65639, 65640). Prerequisite: FIN 500 or 511; IE 522 or FIN 502; FIN 512 (concurrent enrollment allowed); or consent of instructor.
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74070
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Lecture-Discussion
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C
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11:00AM
-12:20PM
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MW
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241 Wohlers Hall
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Pearson, N
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74071
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Lecture-Discussion
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D
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12:30PM
-1:50PM
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MW
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241 Wohlers Hall
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Pearson, N
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