Inhalt

[ 201MAMOMMWV18 ] VL Mathematical models in the economic sciences

Versionsauswahl
(*) Unfortunately this information is not available in english.
Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
3 ECTS B2 - Bachelor's programme 2. year Mathematics Sascha Desmettre 2 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Original study plan Bachelor's programme Technical Mathematics 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
This course is usually offered with the subtitles: Life Insurance Mathematics or Credit Risk, but can also have a different subtitle and other content (each from the area of financial mathematics or actuarial mathematics). In the case of the subtitle Life Insurance Mathematics, the aim is to enable the students to evaluate basic life insurance contracts. This also includes modeling mortality (probabilities). In the case of the subtitle Life Insurance Mathematics, students should learn how to deal with credit risk derivatives and how to evaluate them. This also includes modeling loan defaults.
Skills Knowledge
Subtitle life insurance:

  • Determine of present values of perpetual and temporary annuities
  • Model mortality
  • Deal with mortality tables
  • Determine net premiums and net premium reserves
  • Include costs

Subtitle credit risk:

  • Evaluate fair credit derivatives and credit risk products
  • Model loan defaults (Firm’s Value Models, The Merton Model, Intensity Models, Poisson Process,…)
  • Value CDX tranches (valuation formula for CDO tranches, Gaussian copula model, implicit correlation, the gamma model, Lévy processes,…)
  • Apply Monte Carlo simulation in credit models
Subtitle life insurance:

Characteristics of life insurance contracts, distinction between present value and net premiums, basic interest rate theory (effective and nominal interest), remaining lifetime, life insurance and (whole) life annuities, Thiele ODE, net premium reserve, Hattendorf’s theorem, types of costs, sufficient premiums, Zillmerization of costs, connected lives, multiple decrements

Subtitle credit risk:

Credit default swap, CDOs, CDS indices, valuation and calibration of credit risk products, firm's value models, the Merton model, intensity models, Poisson process, valuation formula for CDO tranches, Gaussian copula model, implicit correlation, the gamma model, Lévy processes , Basics for Monte Carlo simulation

Criteria for evaluation
Methods (*)Häufig dabei angewandte Methoden stammen aus den Bereichen Monte Carlo-Simulation oder Spieltheorie.
Language German
Changing subject? No
Further information (*)Bei vorher gesondert angemeldetem Bedarf ist die Abhaltung auch Englisch möglich.
Corresponding lecture (*)TM1PFVOWIRT: VO Mathematische Modelle in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften (3 ECTS)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants -
Assignment procedure Direct assignment