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Financial Economics and Risk Management

ECON-4510

Dimitrios Tsomocos
Professor, University of Oxford – Saïd Business School.

Álvaro Riascos
Professor, Universidad de los Andes

Dates: June 28 to July 13
Schedule: 9:00 am a 12:00 m
Class Room:

The course is given in English by professor Tsomocos and Spanish by professor Riascos

This course serves two functions. First, it provides students with a thorough coverage of the principles of asset pricing and the basics of risk management. It introduces students to advanced finance theory that forms the foundation of modern finance. Second, the course offers students with hands-on experience by using computable algorithms to measure market and credit risk of portfolios of several different instruments.