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3.00 Credits
Quantitative Finance The course covers basic mathematical tools for derivatives. Focus is given to the basics of stochastic calculus. Ito's lemma and its applications are covered extensively. Stochastic differential equations and Partial differential Equations are discussed. The course contains several examples to Martingale representation theorem and has overall an applied perspective.The second part of the course deals with numerical methods such as Monte Carlo and discretisation of differential equations and of Partial differential equations. The course ends with a discussion of Markov Chan Monte Carlo.
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3.00 Credits
Risk Management: Intro to Risk Management; Regulations and Financial Markets; Fixed Income and Credit Markets Risk management course is divided into two parts. The first part is the basics of market and credit risk. This will be covered intensively. The framework will be similar to the approach used in JP Morgan's Riskmetrics and Creditmetrics. The idea here is to make sure that every participant knows the basic risk management the way it is practiced in the markets. The course also deals with the information from across the organization, combine different instrument type into one portfolio, perform scenario and stress tests, calculate at-risk measures and deliver a customized report. Credit risk management methodologies are becoming increasingly sophisticated. The second part of the course proposes an overview of the most recent techniques used in credit risk management. It is aimed to let the participants learn about the new models in this fast developing area. New instruments, new securitization methods are discussed. Examples taken from well-known cases will underline the importance of an adequate credit risk management system. An essential part of this course is the discussion of the leading risk management and book maintenance software available to financial institutions.
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3.00 Credits
Quantitative Techniques in Finance This course covers and reviews the basics of financial accounting as well as the measurement, and reporting of the financial effects of various shocks on financial institutions. Topics include accrual accounting concepts; transaction analysis, recording, ad processing, preparation, understanding and analysis of financial statements. These include income statement, balance sheet, and cash-flow statement. Accounting treatment of depreciation of assets; accounting for investments; and accounting for liabilities and present value concepts are also covered. The second part of the course covers accounting issues for derivatives. FASB rules are covered from a practical angle.
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3.00 Credits
Trading Course I This is "Lab course" focused on the applications of credit, foreign exchangeand bond markets. The trading course provides training in the trading mechanics while applying conventions of market practice. Students conduct simulations of actual trading through case studies and portfolio management assignments. One of the purposes of the trading course is to make the student familiar with the practical aspects of back office practices.
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3.00 Credits
Trading Course II Lab course focused on the applications of equity and emerging markets. The trading course provides training in the trading mechanics while applying conventions of market practice. Students conduct simulations of actual trading through case studies and portfolio management assignments. One of the purposes of the trading course is to make the student familiar with the practical aspects of back office practices.
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3.00 Credits
Professional Financial Internship The internship provides the opportunity to receive credit for professional training and practices related to the degree. Students are expected to engage in such training for at least 5 weeks. It will take place at the banks, financial institution, security house, regulatory agencies and multinational institutions. Students meet at the end of internship with advisor and submit a written report at the end of internship.
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3.00 Credits
Capstone Course During the final semester (summer) of the program students will take part in two weeks of an intensive summation of the program where course content, trading room simulation and the knowledge gained from the internship will be culminated through a critical discussion of financial data sets, simulations, and evaluation exercises.
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3.00 Credits
Change and Continuity in the United States: American Political Development in the 20th Century Not offered 2008-09. Three credits. David Plotke This course analyzes American political development from the turn of the 20th century to the present. What are the main continuities in American politics How should we understand the origins and consequences of major phases of political change These questions guide studies of important moments of conflict and transition. We examine Progressivism in the early 20th century, the New Deal, the post-WWII expansion of American international power, the political and cultural battles of the 1960s, and the rise of conservative political forces from the 1970s and 1980s through the end of the 20th century. We consider two recurring issues that have been the subject of sharp political conflict-the purpose and limits of economic regulation, and the size and composition of immigration into the United States. In assessing U.S. political development we are interested in relations between political and economic reorganization and popular movements. And we place political and social developments within the United States in comparative context. Cross-listed as GPOL 6222.
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3.00 Credits
Politics and Political Theory in the United States: Power, Participation, and Choice Spring 2009. Three credits. David Plotke In the last half-century, political scientists, political theorists, and public figures in the United States have made a number of contributions to contemporary thought about politics. These contributions have come both from political science and from politics in the United States (most but not all of the participants have been U.S. citizens). The authors range widely in their political views and aims. They share a preference for democratic political arrangements, though their views of democracy and its advantages vary greatly. They also share a temperament that might be described as analytical-empirical-linking general claims about the dynamics of political processes with relevant empirical work. We will consider the following subjects and authors: power (Dahl, Gaventa); political and social choice (Arrow, Riker, Olson); participation and representation (Pitkin, Mansbridge); protest and civil disobedience (King, Jr., Malcolm X, Rawls); equality (Hochschild, Okin, Young); and justice (Rawls, Walzer). We will examine the relations between these efforts and politics in the United States in the last half-century, with a focus on this question: under what conditions do people manage to create theoretically original and practically significant works about politics Cross-listed with GPOL 6455.
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3.00 Credits
Anthropology as a History of the Present Spring 2009. Three credits. Ann Stoler In 1950, the don of British anthropology, Evans Pritchard, warned that anthropology would have to choose between being history or being nothing. What did he mean by that statement How prescient was he in charting the direction that anthropology would take in the 21st century This course explores the changing form and content of historical reflection in the making of anthropology as a discipline, a set of practices, and mode of inquiry. It starts at the notion that anthropological knowledge is always grounded in implicit and explicit assumptions about the ways in which the past can be known, how people differently use their pasts, and what different societies counts as relevant and debatable history. We will look at how different understandings of the relationship between history, culture and power and the concepts that join them-habitus, structural violence, cultural debris, imagined community, social memory, genealogy, tradition-have given shape to critical currents in ethnographic method and social theory. This course is required for MA and PhD students in Anthropology. Cross-listed as GANT 6050. 65
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