Final Exam Review

Scheduling Information:

Time: Monday, December 10, from 1:00-4:00pm
Location: WEH 5409
Review Session: Sunday, December 9, from 3:00-4:30 in WEH 8220.

 
 

Topics Covered:

Key Rates (Chapter 5)
Principal Component Analysis (pp. 186-200)
Binomial short rate models (Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10)
Risk neutral pricing (Shreve I, ch 6)
Backward induction (Shreve I, ch 6)
Interest rate swaps, caps, and floors pp. 483-490)
Securities with multiple payments
Number of Heads as a state variable
Anerican and Bermudian options
Optimal Exercise
Callable and putable bonds (pp 491-495)
Forward and futures contracts (Chapter 13)
T-Bill forward and futures
Eurodollar forward and futures (Chapter 15)
Mortgages (Chapter 20)
 
 

Formula Sheet:

You'll be given this formula sheet to use with the exam.

 

Review Problems:

Here are some Final Exam Review Problems, and solutions. (It is the practice final exam from the Fall 2015 version of the course.) They should be a pretty good guide to what you might expect to see on Monday's exam. Note that Key rates and principal components do not appear in any of these problems.