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Archived Version 2014 - 2015
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Description This undergraduate course covers asset pricing, with emphasis on continuous-time models. Arbitrage, trading strategies, market completeness. Portfolio choice in complete and incomplete markets. Myopic and hedging demand. Derivatives pricing: risk-neutral pricing and risk premia. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Use basic models to price assets 2. Apply common hedging techniques 3. Derive heuristic solutions to portfolio choice problems 4. Understand the payoffs of different trading strategies 5. Use risk-neutral methods to price derivative contracts 6. Relate discrete-time models with their continuous-time counterparts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 |
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Indicative Content and
Learning Activities ArbitrageAssets, Payoffs, Simple and Gross Returns, Strategies, Self-financing portfolios, Arbitrage, Stochastic Discount Factors, First and Second Fundamental Theorems of Asset Pricing, Law of one price.HedgingArbitrage bounds, Replication Bounds, Superhedging, Superreplication Theorem, Market Completeness, Perfect Replication, Redundancy of AssetsOptimalityUtility Functions, Absolute and Relative Risk Aversion, Allais and Ellsberg paradoxes, Savage Representation, Arbitrage and Utility, First-order condition, Investment and Consumption. Logarithmic, Power, and Exponential Utilities.Mean-Variance AnalysisExpected Return and Risk, State Price-Beta Representation, Hansen-Jagannathan Bound, Mean-Variance Frontier, Two-fund SeparationDualityLegendre Transforms and their properties, Duality Method for Verification, Pricing by Marginal Utility. Duality Bounds.Continuous TimeBachelier and Samuelson models. Continuous trading. Doubling strategies. Admissible Strategies. Local Martingales and Supermartingales. No arbitrage and Admissibility. Stochastic Discount Factors and Martingale Measures. Bayes' formula.Diffusion modelsInstantaneous returns and covariances. Stochastic exponential. Discount factors in diffusion models and risk premia. Representation of payoffs.Portfolio ChoiceUtility maximization from terminal wealth and consumption. Solution by Duality in Bachelier and Samuelson models with exponential and power utility. Merton and Markowitz formulas. General solution in complete markets. Duality with consumption.Stochastic ControlDynamic programming. Value Function. Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. Verification. Homogeneity.Stochastic Investment Opportunities.Asset Prices and State Variables. Incompleteness. Intertemporal Hedging. Logarithmic and Power Transformations. Long-run limits. Martingale Measures and Risk-Neutral Dynamics. Long-run optimality. Finite-horizon Bounds. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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