Program in Quantitative Finance

Course Program 1996/98

Program characteristics are small classes and excellent ressources (EDP, Library, Access to Data and Information Sources). Lectures are given by visiting professors who are leading specialists from all parts of the world, and by IHS staff members. 7 students enrolled for the QUANTFIN Program 1996/98 and all of them finished the program successfully. 

First Year (1996/97)

Probability Theory and Statistics 24 U Oct 96-Nov 96 R. Alt (IHS) 
Econometrics I 24 U Dec 96-Jan 97 G. Rünstler (IHS) 
Time Series Analysis 10 U Jun 97 A. Samarov (MIT) 
Macroeconomics 24 U Jan 97-Mar 97 R. Waldmann (EUI, Florence) 
Microeconomics 24 U Feb 97-Mar 97 R. Amir (WZB, Berlin) 
Microeconomics of the Capital Market   8 U 30.6.-10.7.1997 F. Milne (Queens U, Ontario) 
Empirical Aspects of Corporate Finance   8 U 2.-13.6.1997 B. Hollifield (UBC, Vancouver) 
Security Analysis and Portfolio Theory 10 U Jan 97-Mar 97 P. Mitter (IHS) 
Introduction to Options and Futures 10 U Apr 97-May 97 R. Alt (IHS) 
Introduction to Stochastic Calculus and Continuous Finance   6 U 2.-9.9.1997 P. Courty (UPF, Barcelona) 
GAUSS  8 U Apr 97-May 97 P. Mitter (IHS) 
Seminar in Finance 20 U Jan 97-Jul 97 Helmenstein, Lee (IHS) 
 

Second Year (1997/98)

Econometrics II 14 U April 98 R. Kunst (IHS) 
Financial Econometrics 10 U Jan 98 T. Bollerslev (Virginia) 
Term Structure Models 10 U Oct 97 D.Y. Dupont (FRS) 
Continuous-Time Finance: Selected Topics 10 U June 98 K. Back (Washington) 
Advanced Portfolio Optimization 10 U June 98 M. J. Best (Univ. of Waterloo) 
Seminar in Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory 22 U Sept. 97-Oct97 R. Alt (IHS), M. Jeckle, W. Schwaiger (Innsbruck) 
Exotic Options and Computational Finance 14 U June 98 G. Lee (IHS) 
Introduction to Value at Risk 4 U Sept. 98 R. Alt (IHS)
Seminar in Finance 20 E. Oct 97-Jul 98 G. Lee (IHS) 
U = course unit = 90 minutes 


For  information on our next Program in Quantitative Finance please contact Ursula Hauser (student affairs manager) (Phone +43-1-59991-261). 
 
 
IHS-Homepage  Department of Finance