ORIE 673 - Statistical Methods for Risk Management, Fall 2006

Syllabus and Reading

Week Topic Reading in textbook    Papers to read
1 (8/25) Basic Concepts Chapters 2 -
2 (8/28, 8/30, 9/1) Basic Concepts Chapter 2 cont. -
3 (9/4, 9/6, 9/8) Multivariate models Chapter 3 Azzaline and Capitanion (2003)
4 (9/11, 9/13, 9/15) Multivariate models, copulas Chapter 5 -
5 (9/18, 9/20, 9/22) Copulas Chapter 5 -
6 (9/22, 9/27, 9/29) Copulas Chapter 5 -
7 (10/2, 10/4, 10/6) Credit Risk Management Chapter 8 -
8 (10/11, 10/13) Credit Risk Management Chapter 8 Modeling Default Risk
9 (10/16, 10/18, 10/20) Credit Risk Management Chapter 8 On the Equivalence of the KMV and Maximum Likelihood Methods for Structural Credit Risk Models
10 (10/23, 10/25, 10/27) Credit Risk Management Chapter 8 -
11 (10/30, 11/1, 11/3) Credit Risk Management Chapter 8 -
12 (11/6, 11/8, 11/10) Dynamic Credit Risk Chapter 9 -
13 (11/13, 11/15, 11/17) Dynamic Credit Risk Chapter 9 -
14 (11/20, 11/22) Dynamic Credit Risk Chapter 9 Measuring Default Risk Premia from Default Swap Rates and EDFs
15 (11/27, 11/29, 12/1) Dynamic Credit Risk Chapter 9 -