- Spring 2017
Syllabus Description:
The exam will be held on Monday, 5th of June.
Usual Class Room. (LOW-216)
10:30-12:20 p.m
Dear All;
There was a typo in HW 4.
Q1) It should be Uniform distribution on (0,2). I have corrected the typo. It is under Files/Homework
Dear All;
For those of you, who need proctor registartion for the upcoming midterm exam can find the information and proctor registration section here
http://depts.washington.edu/compfin/info/exam-proctors/
Dear All;
There was a typo in the last question of the homework. The index should go backward.
I have corrected 5b) in HW 2.
Dear all;
A good reference to get more details about the lecture notes in Time Series is
[1] Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting by P.J. Brockwell and R.A. Davis.
and to work on more financial applications is
[3] An Introduction to Analysis of Financial Data with R by Ruey Tsay.
Homework 2 is POSTED
under Files/Homeworks.
The data set to be worked on is SouthernHemisphere.txt.
It is in the folder R files/datasets.
Due date is next next Sunday, midnight.
IN Q3 of HW1, probability of each omega_i equals 1/4. Namely, P(w_i) = 1/4 for each i=1,...,4.
I have fixed this typo and updated the homework.
FIRST HOMEWORK PUBLISHED. IT IS DUE NEXT WEDNESDAY. PLEASE UPLOAD IT ONTO CANVAS. FOR THE PROGRAMMING PART PLEASE COPY AND PASTE YOUR R-SCRIPT TO YOUR SUBMISSION AL0NG WITH YOUR PLOTS.
Midterm Date : 18th of May, Thursday Usual Class Time 10:00AM-11:50AM
Link To MediaStreaming
Here is the link to the Mediasite Catalog for the class.
https://mediasite6.pce.uw.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/catalogs/cfrm546financialriskmanagement
Syllabus For CFRM 546
Instructor:
Kerem Ugurlu
Teaching Assistant:
Ibrahim Ozdemir
Class Room/Schedule
LOW 216/ Tuesday -Thursday 10:00-11:50 AM
Office Hours
Kerem Ugurlu: Thursday 13:00-14:30 Lewis Hall Office 304
email: keremu@uw.edu
Kerem Ugurlu skypename: kerem.ugurlu1
Ibrahim Ozdemir: Art Building Office 343
email : idemir@uw.edu
Required Software •
R Language for Statistical Computing and Graphics
Recommended Software •
RStudio integrated development environment for R
Recommended Textbooks & Slides
Slides for the upcoming week are uploaded on canvas every sunday.
The recommended textbooks for the class are as follows:
[1] Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting by P.J. Brockwell and R.A. Davis.
[2] Quantitative Risk Management: Concepts, Techniques and Tools by Alexander J. McNeil, P. Embrechts, and Rüdiger Frey
[3] An Introduction to Analysis of Financial Data with R by Ruey Tsay.
[4] Mathematical Finance: Theory, Review and Exercises by Emanuela Gianin, and Carlo Sgarra
Weekly Tentative Syllabus
Week 1: [MRE, Chapter 1]
Introducing the Concept of Risk
Risk in Perspective
Week 2: [Gianin, Chapter 12; MRE, Chapter 2]
Risk Measures and Basic Concepts in Risk Management
Week 3: [Gianin, Chapter 12; MRE, Chapter 2]
Risk Measures and Basic Concepts in Risk Management
Week 4: [Tsay, Chapter 2]
Elimination of Trend and Seasonal Components
Stationary Models, Autocovariance and Autocorrelation
Sample Autocovariance and Autocorrelation
Week5: [Tsay, Chapter 2]
Time Series Analysis (2)
Linear Processes and ARMA models
Week6: [Brockwell, Chapter 5]
Forecasting (prediction) of stationary time series
Week7: [Tsay, Chapter4]
Estimation of time series
ARCH models
Week 8:
Nonlinear time series [Tsay, Chapter4]
GARCH models
Week 9: [MRE, Chapter 7]
Extreme Value Theory
Week 10:
Introduction to Credit Risk [MRE, Chapter 8]
Online assignment submission
R programming assignments will be submitted online to an automated execution and grading system.
Grading
There will be 5 assignments.
The assignments contain theory and programming sections.
Each assignment counts towards 10% of your grade.
There will be 1 midterm counting towards 20%.
The final exam will be cumulative and count towards 30% of your final grade.
Academic integrity
Academic integrity is vitally important in the Computational Finance & Risk Management Program; hence our CF&RM Honor Code:
“Cheating, attempted cheating, plagiarism, lying, and stealing in relation to academic work is prohibited”
Specifically, there is a zero-tolerance policy for academic misconduct in the class.
Graduate students at the University of Washington are expected to practice high standards of professional honesty and integrity as described in the Student Academic Responsibility statement:
In regards to software development, the UW CSE Academic Misconduct Policy will also be applied:
This policy states 5 specific rules with the following 2 being critically important:
You must not share actual program code with other students. In particular, you should not ask anyone to give you a copy of their code or, conversely, give your code to another student who asks you for it; nor should you post your solutions on the web, in public repositories, or any other publicly accessible place. Similarly, you should not discuss your algorithmic strategies to such an extent that you and your collaborators end up turning in exactly the same code. Discuss ideas together, but do the coding on your own. You must not look at solution sets or program code from other years, nor should you make your own solutions publicly available even after the due date. Beyond being a clear violation of academic integrity, making use of old solution sets is a dangerous practice. Most assignments change in a variety of ways from year to year as we seek to make them better. Each year, however, some student turns in a solution to an assignment from some prior year, even though that assignment has since changed so that the old solution no longer makes sense. Submitting something that solves a previous year’s assignment perfectly while failing to solve the current one is particularly damaging evidence of Academic Misconduct. Students violating this policy will receive a failing grade for the course and be referred to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences per the college’s disciplinary review process:
http://depts.washington.edu/grading/conduct/reporting.html
Students should take the time to review each of the above policies and be conscientious to follow them throughout the course.
Disability accommodations
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http://www.washington.edu/students/drs
If you are approved for an academic accommodation, please advise the instructor during the first week of the class.
Changes to the course
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