Mini course announcement

Prof. Giulia Di Nunno [ UiO - Department of Mathematics - Oslo ] will give a mini course on Lévy processes with applications in financial modelling, at the Department of Computer Science, University of Verona, according with the following calendar

Monday,       6th of June 14.30 -17.30
Tuesday,      7th of June 13.30 -16.30
Wednesday, 8th of June 14.30 -17.30

All the lessons will  take place at the Dept. of Computer Science,
Strada le Grazie, 15 - Verona
Ca' Vignal 2,   first floor ,  Room M.

located here

https://goo.gl/maps/Yx2JU

The tentative programme is the following:

1. Lévy processes an introduction
– infinitely divisible distributions, characteristic function and Lévy-Khinchine formula
– Lévy-Ito decomposition
– Lévy measure, path and moment properties.
– Some classes of Lévy processes of particular interest

2. Lévy processes and stochastic calculus
–  Ito formula for Lévy processes
– Girsanov theorem, Esscher transform

3. Asset price modelling
– price models based on exponential Lévy process
– real-world measure and risk-neutral measure, market incompleteness
– examples of models

4. Pricing of financial derivatives in the models introduced

5. (if time permits) Introduction to hedging and portfolio representations


Do not hesitate to contact me for further details: luca.dipersio@univr.it

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Luca Di Persio - PhD
assistant professor of
Probability and Mathematical Finance

Dept. Informatics University of Verona
strada le Grazie 15 - 37134 Verona - Italy
Tel  :   +39  045  802 7968

Dept. Math  University of Trento
V. Sommarive, 14 - 38123 Povo - Italy
Tel  :   +39  0461  281686