Risk Management in Finance and Regulation
- Credits: 8
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 30sP
- Semester: winter
- Year: 1
- Faculty of Economics and Finance
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Upon successful completion of this course, students shall reach the top expertise in the field of financial risk and have a deep insight in the methodology and analytical tools used in modern risk management. Beyond this insight into the technology of risk management, they should be also knowledgeable of regulatory framework and understand the landscape of the framework also from practical point of view.
I. Knowledge base and understanding
After completing this course, students should be capable of:
• Correctly identifying specific approaches and methods that could be used in specific instances of risk measurement and management.
• Applying quantitative techniques and thoroughly understand the methodology and interpretation of individual definitions of indicators used in financial practice
• Navigating throughout different levels of legislation and being able to read and understand their interlinkages and consequences when applying to specific problems.
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II. Skills
After completing this course, students should be able to:
• analyse and implement legal procedures into the field of risk management, understand and explain logic consequences of risk management legislation in practice.
• Understand the structure of legislative norms related to risk assessment and risk management (interaction between national and supranational legislation)
Indicative content
• Market Risk. Expected shortfall. Extreme Value Theory
• Market Risk. Beyond Correlation
• Liquidity Risk
• Bayesian Analysis
• Behavioral Economics and Risk.
• Risk Management within legislative framework – principles of regulation.
• Risk Management within legislative framework – resolution of crisis situations.
Support literature
• Miller M.B., 2018, Quantitative Financial Risk Management, Wiley Finance.
• Miller M.B., 2014, Mathematics and Statistics for Financial Risk Management, Wiley Finance.
• Gertler L, Sivak, R, 2018, Riziko vo financiách a v bankovníctve. Sprint 2 s.r.o
• Gertler L. a kol. 2020, Explaining corporate credit default rates with sector level detail. Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol.70(2).
Requirements to complete the course
100% final exam.
Student workload
1 credit = 26 hours, i.e. total student load = 8 credits * 26 hours
Student workload: 208 hours
consultations – 30 hours, studies and preparation – 70 hours, preparing final exam – 108 hours
Language whose command is required to complete the course
slovak
Date of approval: 11.03.2024
Date of the latest change: 24.01.2022