教学内容
Course Contents
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Conditional Expectations and Discrete Martingales (6 hours)
Existence, uniqueness, and basic properties of conditional expectations;
Definition, properties, and convergence theorems of discrete martingales.
Brownian Motion (10 hours)
Definition of Brownian motion;
Levy construction of Brownian motion;
Holder Continuity of Brownian Motion;
Reflection principle and scaling;
Stochastic Calculus (16 hours)
Stock prices are not differentiable;
Stochastic integration; Ito formula; Integration by parts;
Stochastic Fubini theorem; Girsanov theorem;
Brownian Martingale representation theorem;
Feynman--Kac representation.
Black--Scholes Model (16 hours)
Basic Black--Scholes model;
Black--Scholes price and hedge for European options;
Foreign exchange; Dividends; Bonds; Market price of risk;
Uniqueness of Risk-Neutral measure.
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平时作业 Assignments 25% 期中考试 Mid-Term Test 25% 期末考试 Final Exam 50%
教材及其它参考资料
Textbook and Supplementary Readings
Textbook (Main materials: Chapters 3-5):
Alison Etheridge, A course in financial calculus. Cambridge University Press, 2002.