Introduction to Mathematical Finance. Risk management of financial assets.

Brownian motion, Martingales, Ito's Calculus. Application to the theory of pricing and hedging derivative securities. The Black-Scholes formula for option pricing and related issues.

written and oral exam The written exam can be taken at one of three dates during the semester. Dates and details can be found here: http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/lehre/pr/index.php

• Marek Musiela, Marek Rutkowski: Martingale Methods in Financial Modelling. Springer, 2nd ed., 2005, ISBN 3-54020-966-2.
• Monique Jeanblanc-Picqué, Marc Yor, Mark Chesney: Mathematical Methods for Financial Markets. Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-1-85233-376-8, DOI 10.1007/978-1-84628-737-4.
• Steven E. Shreve: Stochastic Calculus for Finance II. Continuous-Time Models. Springer, 2004, ISBN 0-38740-101-6.
• Ioannis Karatzas, Steven E. Shreve: Methods of Mathematical Finance. Springer, corr. 2. pr., 1999, ISBN 0-387-9839-2.
• Damien Lamberton, Bernard Lapeyre: Introduction to Stochastic Calculus Applied to Finance. Chapman & Hall, 2nd ed., 2008, ISBN 978-1-58488-626-6.
• Tomas Björk: Arbitrage Theory in Continuous Time. Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2004, ISBN 978-0-19927-126-9.
• Martin Baxter, Andrew Rennie: Financial Calculus. Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN 0-52155-289-3.

Foundations

• Hans Föllmer, Alexander Schied: Stochastic Finance. An Introduction in Discrete Time. De Gruyter, 2nd ed., 2004, ISBN 3-11018-346-3.
• Bernt K. Øksendal: Stochastic Differential Equations, an Introduction with Applications. Springer, 6th ed., 2007, ISBN 978-3-54004-758-2.
• Daniel Revuz, Marc Yor: Continuous Martingales and Brownian Motion. Springer, 3. ed., corr. 3. print., 2005, ISBN 3-54064-325-7.
• Olav Kallenberg: Foundations of Modern Probability. Springer, 2nd ed., 2002, ISBN 0-38795-313-2.
• Ioannis Karatzas, Steven E. Shreve: Brownian Motion and Stochastic Calculus. Springer, 2. ed., corr. 6. print., 2000, ISBN 0-38797-655-8.