Academic Catalog

IAM548 STOCHASTIC PROCESSES FOR INSURANCE AND FINANCE

Course Code: 9700548
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Institute Of Applied Mathematics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Essentials of stochastic integrals and stochastic differential equations. Probability distributions and heavy tails. Concepts from insurance and finance. Ordering of risks. Aggregate claim amount distributions. Risk processes. Renewal processes and random walks. Markov chains. Continuous Markov models. Martingale techniques and Brownian motion. Point processes. Diffusion models. Applications to insurance and finance processes.