Financial Risk Management


Dozent: Prof. Dr. Olaf Korn

Zyklus: Siehe Veranstaltungsplan

ECTS-Informationen: 6 Credits

Empfohlene Vorkenntnisse: Finanzmärkte und Bewertung

Sprache: Englisch

Leistungsnachweis: Erfolgreiche Teilnahme an einer 90-minütigen Klausur

Struktur der Veranstaltung: Vorlesung und Übung

Modulnummer: M.WIWI-BWL.0004

Ansprechpartner: Prof. Dr. Olaf Korn

Lernziele:

After a successful completion of the course students should be able to

  • understand and explain how risk management is related to other issues in corporate finance
  • critically assess different motivations for corporate risk management
  • understand and critically assess different risk measures and how they are applied in practice
  • understand and explain how international risks can be managed and how the management of international risks is related to various economic parity conditions
  • understand, analyze and critically apply measures and methods to manage interest rate risk
  • understand, analyze and critically apply measures and methods to manage credit risk
  • understand, analyze and critically apply hedging strategies for commodity price risk.