300-332 Modelling in Insurance and Finance II

Note

Students may not gain credit for both 300-332 Modelling in Insurance and Finance I and 620-302 Chance and Option Pricing I.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

To be advised.

Prerequisites

300-331 Modelling in Insurance and Finance I.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

Three hours of lectures per week and up to 12 practice classes per semester

Subject Description

Topics include one-dimensional Brownian motion and geometric Brownian motion; Itô's formula; Brownian motion calculus and stochastic differential equations, multi-dimensional asset model; Vasicek model; Levy processes and their application; martingales in insurance; and Monte Carlo simulation in insurance and finance.

Assessment

A 3-hour end-of-semester examination (80%) and either a mid-semester test or up to 50 pages of assignments (20%).



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