040648 FK KFK FD: Financial Services (Applications) (2010W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Continuous assessment of course work

Vorbesprechung [und gleichzeitig erste Einheit]: Dienstag, 5. Oktober 2010, 13:30 Uhr, BWZ, HS 4, Bauteil II, 2. Stock.

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Registration is open from We 08.09.2010 09:00 to We 22.09.2010 17:00
Registration is open from Tu 28.09.2010 09:00 to We 29.09.2010 17:00
Deregistration possible until Th 14.10.2010 23:59

Details

max. 50 participants

Language: English

Lecturers

Tomas Sedliacik

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Tuesday 05.10. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 4
Tuesday 12.10. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 4
Tuesday 19.10. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 4
Tuesday 09.11. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 4
Tuesday 16.11. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 4
Tuesday 23.11. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 4
Tuesday 30.11. 13:30 - 16:00 Hörsaal 4
Tuesday 07.12. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 4
Tuesday 14.12. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 4
Tuesday 11.01. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 4
Tuesday 18.01. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 4
Tuesday 25.01. 13:30 - 15:00 Hörsaal 4
Tuesday 01.02. 13:30 - 16:00 Hörsaal 4

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Risk management and risk theory, Decision making under risk, valuation of lotteries, utility theory, insurance theory, portfolio optimization, optimal insurance coverage.

Assessment and permitted materials

One midterm and one final exam, each weighted with 40 per cent of the overall score. The remaining 20 per cent are awarded for solving the problem sets as well as for class participation during the course.

The sign out can be performed within the regular sign out period. Moreover, there will be an automatic sign out in case that a student has not participated on any of the relevant course duties.

For further information see http://homepage.univie.ac.at/tomas.sedliacik/

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

At the end of the course students should be familiar with the basic principles of risk management and risk theory.

Examination topics

Lecture, Problem Sets, Discussion.

Reading list

Eeckhoud/Gollier: "Risk Evaluation, Management and Sharing", published by Harvester/Wheatsheaf, New York-London, 1995
Course materials (primarily slides)

Association in the course directory

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