Andreas Franz Ruckstuhl: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2020

Name Prof. Dr. Andreas Franz Ruckstuhl
(Professor ZFH - Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW))
E-mailandreasfranz.ruckstuhl@math.ethz.ch
DepartmentMathematics
RelationshipLecturer

NumberTitleECTSHoursLecturers
447-6191-00LStatistical Analysis of Financial Data Restricted registration - show details
Special Students "University of Zurich (UZH)" in the Master Program in Biostatistics at UZH cannot register for this course unit electronically. Forward the lecturer's written permission to attend to the Registrar's Office. Alternatively, the lecturer may also send an email directly to registrar@ethz.ch. The Registrar's Office will then register you for the course.
2 credits1GM. Dettling, A. F. Ruckstuhl
AbstractDistributions for financial data. Volatility models: ARCH- and GARCH models. Value at risk and expected shortfall. Portfolio theory: minimum-variance portfolio, efficient frontier, Sharpe’s ratio. Factor models: capital asset pricing model, macroeconomic factor models, fundamental factor model. Copulas: Basic theory, Gaussian and t-copulas, archimedean copulas, calibration of copulas.
Learning objectiveGetting to know the typical properties of financial data and appropriate statistical models, incl. the corresponding functions in R.