1. Extensions of the Black-Scholes model: Dividends, currency derivatives.

2. Incomplete markets: Pricing in a factor model, the market price of risk.

3. The martingale approach to arbitrage pricing. Martingale measures. The first and second fundamental theorems.

4. Interest rate theory: Short rate models, affine term structures, inversion of the yield curve, forward rate models, the HJM approach.

5. Change of numeraire: The normalized economy, pricing in a new numeraire, forward measures, the general option pricing formula, forward and futures contracts.

6. LIBOR and swaption market models.

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Lecture notes

Exam

More precisely the students are assumed to have basic knowledge of the following mathematical areas:

• Measure and integration theory, including the Radon Nikodym theorem

• Stochastic differential equations

• The Kolmogorov backward equation

• The Feynman-Kac representation Theorem• The Ito formula

• The Girsanov Theorem

• The stochastic integral representation Theorem for Wiener martingalesThe students are also assumed to be familiar with elementary theory for arbitrage free pricing and hedging of European derivatives within the Black-Scholes model.