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Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026

Module Title Fixed Income Securities (Advanced)
Module Code MTH1071 (ITS: MS525)
Faculty Mathematical Sciences School Science & Health
NFQ level 9 Credit Rating 7.5
Description

This graduate course focuses on a rigorous treatment of models for pricing and hedging fixed-income securities, with emphasis on continuous-time. Interest-rate contracts: bonds, swaps, caps and floors, options, swaptions. Term-structure estimation: bootstrap, splines. Shortrate models: Vasicek, Cox-Ingersoll-Ross, and related models. Forward-rates and Heath-Jarrow-Morton approach. Market (LIBOR) models.

Learning Outcomes

1. Price fixed-income securities
2. 1DBCA491-400B-0001-D88E-1A1E196B1953
3. Develop pricing and hedging methods for new interest-rate related products


WorkloadFull time hours per semester
TypeHoursDescription
Lecture36Classes
Directed learning3Final Exam
Seminars5Attendance to Research Seminars
Independent Study150Independent work on textbooks and related papers
Total Workload: 194
Section Breakdown
CRN20798Part of TermSemester 2
Coursework0%Examination Weight0%
Grade Scale40PASSPass Both ElementsY
Resit CategoryRC1Best MarkN
Module Co-ordinatorPaolo GuasoniModule Teacher
Assessment Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
Formal ExaminationEnd-of-Semester Final Examination100%End-of-Semester
Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories;
RC1: A resit is available for both* components of the module.
RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module.
RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element.

* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite None
Co-requisite None
Compatibles None
Incompatibles None

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

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Indicative Reading List

Books:
  • Damir Filipovic,: 0, Term-Structure Models: A Graduate Course, 978-3-540-09726-6
  • Pietro Veronesi: 2010, Fixed income securities, Wiley, Hoboken, N.J., 0470109106


Articles:
None
Other Resources

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