Semester | Spring Semester, 2018 | ||
Department | MA Program of International Business, First Year MA Program of International Business, Second Year | ||
Course Name | Fixed Income Securities: Analytics and Derivatives | ||
Instructor | FU YEE-TIEN | ||
Credit | 3.0 | ||
Course Type | Elective | ||
Prerequisite |
Course Objective |
Course Description |
Course Schedule |
Weekly Topics Introduction – Week 1 Bond Mathematics – Weeks 2 and 3 Class Presentation of Project will start on Week Fifteen for three weeks. |
Teaching Methods |
Teaching Assistant |
TBA |
Requirement/Grading |
The analysis of fixed income securities is a quantitative discipline. We will focus on the intuition, but there will still be a fair amount of math/numerical computation involved. The course will assume an expertise with basic statistical analysis and with a spreadsheet package (Microsoft Excel, etc.) or a programming language. Quizzes 30%, Midterm Exam 30%, Final Exam 40% |
Textbook & Reference |
Frank Fabozzi, Bond Markets, Analysis and Strategies, 9th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2016. |
Urls about Course |
https://www6.gsb.columbia.edu/courses/syllabus/Debt%20Markets%20(Giles) %20FA2015.pdf |
Attachment |
1062 syllabus Fixed Income Securities for Graduate Students.pdf |