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Economics and business administration (Academic Year 2017/2018) - Economics and Corporate Governance

Financial Mathematics


Credits: 6
Content language:Italian
Course description
Financial Mathematics concerns with the study of the several ways sums of money can be exchanged trough time also named financial transactions.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of basic mathematical rules is an essential prerequisite to attend the course. It is therefore advisable to enter the course after having taken the general mathematics exam.
Objectives
Providing future financial operators with those mathematical techniques frequently used in economic theory in order to fully understand the relative literature.
Program
Introduction to financial mathematics and financial transactions. Financial measures and their properties. Capitalization or Compound interest rate system. Nominal and effective interest rates. Trade discount financial system. Comparison between different financial systems. Spot and Forward transactions and the arbitrage between spot and forward transactions. Annuities. Time indexes and sensitivity indexes. Duration. Loans. Particular cases: Italian and French amortization schedules. Leasing. American amortization schedule. Financial economic projects: valuation criteria.
Book
P.BORTOT – U.MAGNANI – G.OLIVIERI – F.A. ROSSI – M.TORRIGIANI “Matematica finanziaria” Monduzzi Editore
Exercises
The textbook is also provided with practical exercises. It is also advisable to carry out all the exercises attached to the video-lessons. During the course group and individual practical classes will be arranged.
Professor/Tutor responsible for teaching
Giuseppe Melisi
List of lessons
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