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• -  Students will gain a basic structure about quantitative finance, learn the definition and application of various derivatives, and how to apply binomial trees to price financial derivatives.

• -  Students will learn trading strategies involving call and put options.

• -  Students will master how to apply risk measures such as Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall in risk management framework.

This course covers forwards, futures, swaps, and options. In Part I, students will have good knowledge of how forwards, futures and swaps work, how they are used, and how they are priced. In Part II, we will introduce the mechanics of option markets, properties of stock options, options on stock indices and currencies as well as various types of exotic options. In Part III, theories about binomial trees, Wiener processes, Ito’s Lemma, Black-Scholes-Merton Model will be further illustrated, and market risk measures will be covered.

This course is part of the LM degree program and is intended for advanced level students. Enrollment s by consent of the instructor. This course discusses theoretical foundations, computational properties, and use cases for some of the most popular supervised and unsupervised machine learning techniques. In particular, the course addresses tasks such as classification, clustering, and discovery of rules by using modern machine learning methods and libraries.

This course examines principles and practices of inclusive leadership and communication in the context of diverse organizations. It investigates key causes and consequences of inequalities and barriers to inclusion within organizations, including overt and covert biases and forms of discrimination based on gender, ethnicity and disabilities. It also explores leadership strategies and best practices for building and sustaining inclusive organizations.

This course establishes the accessibility and practical usefulness of linguistics in a variety of fields. Formal instruction is integrated with hands-on activities and theoretical insights are systematically correlated with applied work. The course examines key linguistic concepts, grammatical categories, and methodological procedures.

Visions of the end of the world have become common in the for the past decades both in literature and in popular culture. This course examines the narratives dealing with the collapse of civilization and the rebirth of a new society. How have novels and films in the post-World War Two era confronted the fears of social disintegration, ecological disaster, and technological cataclysms? What might these narratives tell us about the world in which we are currently living, which appears perched on the edge of drastic and possibly calamitous changes? The course analyzes novels by George Stewart, Kurt Vonnegut, and Lionel Shriver and views classic and recent films dealing with the end of the world, of humankind, or even of culture itself. Students analyze speculative fiction and develop their own ideas about the future by extrapolating from the narratives studied in the course.

Unlike other major courses for Economics, this course equips students who are not majoring in economics with a deep, systematic understanding of current economic issues. Hence we deal with the current economic issues in the class. Throughout the course, students engage in a series of discussions on economic issues from economic articles in newspapers, periodicals or economic stories in novels.