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15.456 Financial Engineering

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Prereq: 15.401, 15.414, or 15.415
Units: 4-0-5
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Lecture: MW2.30-4 (E62-276) Recitation: F11 (E51-145)

Exposes students to the cutting edge of financial engineering. Includes a deep immersion into 'how things work,' where students develop and test sophisticated computational models and solve highly complex financial problems. Covers stochastic modeling, dynamic optimization, stochastic calculus and Monte Carlo simulation through topics such as dynamic asset pricing and investment management, market equilibrium and portfolio choice with frictions and constraints, and risk management. Assumes solid undergraduate-level background in calculus, probability, statistics, and programming and includes a substantial coding component. Classroom examples presented using Python and R.
P. Mende
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Total units: 9

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