2011-2013 Catalog (without addenda) 
    
    Mar 17, 2026  
2011-2013 Catalog (without addenda) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

FRE 6041 Risk Management in the Real World

1.5 Credits
The course covers failures of financial theory in risk management, deriving from fundamental definitions and assumptions in modeling, including pricing formulae; convexity; stochasticity and volatility; “fat tails”; and risk. Other topics: Portfolio robustness and extreme markets and moral hazard; datamining biases and decision error; and decision- making with incomplete information.

Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0