Introduction to Financial Engineering
Lecture Time: 18:40PM- 21:30PM on Tuesday, Feb-June 2012
Selective Course for Undergrad Students
Course Duration: 3 hours per week, totaled 16 weeks.
Instructor: Dr. Liangyi Ouyang, CFA
School of Economics at Peking University
Tel: (+8610) 62752920, Fax: (+8610) 6275 1460, Email: ouyangly@pku.edu.cn
Course Description
This course will introduce the techniques for designing, pricing and hedging of financial instruments. We will discuss basic tools of forwards, futures, options and swaps and their application and engineering in different contexts.
Prerequisites
This course requires fundamental knowledge of statistics, asset pricing theories and basic understanding of financial derivatives.
Grading
We will have only one Final Exam, which accounts for 100% of the final grades.
Textbook
l (PFE) Principles of Financial Engineering, by Salih N. Neftci, China Machine Press
For reference
l (OFD) Options, Futures and Other Derivatives, by John Hull, Huaxia Press
Course Outline
1. Introduction, PFE Chapter 1&2
2. Cash Flow Engineering and Forward Contracts, PFE Chapter 3
3. Engineering of Interest Rate Derivatives, PFE Chapter 4
4. Swap Engineering PFE Chapter 5
5. Repo Market Strategies, PFE Chapter 6
6. Dynamic Replication Methods, PFE Chapter 7
7. Review of Options, PFE Chapter 8 and OFD Chapters
8. Engineering Convexity Positions PFE Chapter 9
9. Option Engineering PFE Chapter 10.
10. Application of Theorems, PFE Chapter 12
11. Fixed-Income Engineering, PFE Chapter 13
12. Volatility Engineering, PFE Chapter 14 &15
13. Credit Derivatives and Strategies, PFE Chapter 16
14. MBS and CDO PFE Chapter 18 and 19
15. Value at Risk, OFD readings
16. Subprime Crisis, readings to be assigned.