Research and Education in Financial Engineering

金融工程研究与教育

• 批准号: 0200429
• 负责人: Vadim Linetsky
• 金额: $ 40.04万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-07-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0200429&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Education; Financial; Engineering

This project focuses both on methodological and applied aspects of financial engineering. The goal is to develop new and original methods to value complex financial products, manage financial risks, and evaluate investment opportunities. The project will focus on the following problems: developing stochastic models to describe dynamics of asset prices and financial variables; developing new, powerful, analytical and computational tools to value complex derivative instruments (path-dependent and multi-variable contracts in particular) and manage risks of derivatives transactions; the eigenfunction expansion approach to derivatives pricing; investigating the issue of model risk in financial engineering; financial engineering for the energy industry; stochastic optimization methodologies in financial engineering, including investment portfolio management under transaction costs and taxes, and dynamic asset/liability management; and real options applications in manufacturing and service industries. To address the national need for advanced training of specialists in financial engineering, the educational component of the project proposes to develop a comprehensive financial engineering curriculum at Northwestern, from the beginning undergraduate to the doctoral level, and create a new Ph.D. major in financial engineering as a part of the IEMS Ph.D. program at Northwestern.The discipline of financial engineering includes applications of mathematical and statistical modeling and computational technology to problems in the financial services industry and financial management of non-financial corporations and public institutions. This project outlines a broad research program for the next three years. Additionally, it outlines a curriculum development effort, including a new Ph.D. major in financial engineering. This project will support the new Ph.D. program. This project is a part of a long-term development effort at Northwestern in the area of financial engineering. Modeling methodologies, analytical results, and computational algorithms developed in this project will help financial institutions, corporate treasuries, and energy companies accurately value derivative securities, assess model risk, manage investment portfolios, manage assets and liabilities, and apply real options technology to the valuation of businesses and strategic managerial decisions. The education and curriculum development efforts will result in training of highly qualified personnel to enhance competitiveness of the U.S. financial services industry.

该项目侧重于金融工程的方法和应用方面。其目标是开发新的和原始的方法来评估复杂的金融产品，管理金融风险和评估投资机会。该项目将重点关注以下问题：开发随机模型来描述资产价格和金融变量的动态;开发新的，强大的，分析和计算工具来评估复杂的衍生工具（特别是路径依赖和多变量合同）和管理衍生品交易的风险;衍生品定价的特征函数扩展方法;研究金融工程中的模型风险问题;能源行业的金融工程;金融工程中的随机优化方法，包括交易成本和税收下的投资组合管理，以及动态资产/负债管理;以及制造业和服务业中的真实的期权应用。 为了满足国家对金融工程专家高级培训的需求，该项目的教育部分建议在西北大学开发一个全面的金融工程课程，从一开始的本科到博士水平，并创建一个新的博士学位。主修金融工程，作为IEMS博士学位的一部分。金融工程学科包括数学和统计建模以及计算技术在金融服务业和非金融公司和公共机构的财务管理中的应用。 该项目概述了未来三年的广泛研究计划。 此外，它概述了课程开发的努力，包括一个新的博士学位。主修金融工程。该项目将支持新的博士学位。程序.该项目是西北大学在金融工程领域长期发展努力的一部分。 本项目开发的建模方法、分析结果和计算算法将帮助金融机构、企业财务部门和能源公司准确地评估衍生证券、评估模型风险、管理投资组合、管理资产和负债，并将真实的期权技术应用于企业估值和战略管理决策。教育和课程开发工作将培养高素质的人才，以提高美国金融服务业的竞争力。