Econometrics and Operations Research: Financial Engineering

Financial Engineering is a specialization of the Econometrics and Operations Research master's programme. Become the expert on analyzing and designing financial products.

Expanding markets and the increasing complexity and variety of financial products have generated a growing demand for skilled professionals to create, price and hedge complex derivatives. The specialization in Financial Engineering provides you with advanced qualifications in operations research and finance, from the management of financial portfolios to risk analysis in financial markets. Financial Engineering is the place where finance meets operations research!

Financial Engineering uses techniques from operations research such as simulation and simulation-based optimization for evaluating options or portfolio optimization. Financial analysts find work at major banks, brokers, and institutional investors such as insurance companies.

Courses

• Thesis MSc EOR - Operations Research
• Combinatorial Optimization
• Optimization and Learning via Stochastic Gradient Search
• Operations Research Case
• Optimization and Multiagent Systems
• Econometrics for Quantitative Risk Management I
• Stochastic Processes: the Fundamentals
• Asset Pricing
• Stochastic Processes for Finance and Derivatives Markets
• Derivatives
• Institutional Investments and Asset Liability Management