Topics of the course will include: Basic option theory, forward and futures contracts, model of asset price, Ito's Lemma, asset price random walk, Black-Scholes model, free boundary problems of options, discrete random walk model, the binomial methods, Monte Carlo methods, and if time allows, finite difference method..
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