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TIØ4550 - Financial Engineering, Specialization Project

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Examination arrangement

Examination arrangement: Work
Grade: Letter grades

Evaluation Weighting Duration Grade deviation Examination aids
Work 100/100

Course content

The students need to have their choice of specialization and project approved by the department during the semester before they want to take this specialization project. A list of possible projects will be available before the students need to choose specialization. Each project might have its own requirement for 4th year courses and topic in the specialization course. The project supervisor needs to approve the student's choice of topic. The actual academic content will vary with the chosen project.

Learning outcome

The course is mandatory for the students in their 5th year taking the Financial Engineering specialization. It will give students in-depth knowledge and competence to do independent analyses within the area. By financial engineering we mean employing financial economics and quantitative analysis approaches, to make pricing, investment, hedging/risk management and portfolio management decisions. The specialization is also broader than this, offering to write a project thesis on a specialized topic within the areas of finance, investment analysis/capital budgeting, econometrics, the operations and economics/finance interface, and financial management/accounting. Knowledge aquired in this course: Detailed knowledge on identifying, analysing, modelling, possible applications and solutions of topic-specific challenges within their chosen topic. Skills to structure challenges within investment, finance and financial management, challenges for business decision making especially in the interface between technology, business and economics. - Skills to choose an appropriate method to solve a problem - Skills to use appropriate tools to implement models and methods so that one can do business and economic analyses and discussion - The student will learn how to write a scientific report - The student will learn about, and practiced, how to search for relevant literature to gain completing knowledge - The student will have gained general knowledge about business analyses within investment appraisal/capital budgeting, finance and financial management. - The student will form a basis for communicating meaningfully to both economists and engineers about problems at the interface between engineering, business and economics.

Learning methods and activities

The project is a large written exercise, which often includes implementation of economic models, financial models, or financial management models on a computer. There will be regular supervision meetings in addition to the students indepentent work. The project is done alone or by a group of two students.

Required previous knowledge

This course requires TIØ4145 Corporate Finance as well as at least one of TIØ4140 Project Evaluation and Financing and TIØ4317 Empirical and Quantitative Methods in Finance in the 4th year. If only one of the two latter courses are taken, students must either have taken TIØ4136 ICT Economics or TIØ4285 Production- and Network Economics also. Students taking this project course must also elect TIØ4557 Financial Engineering, Specialization Course. Students who wish to specialize in Telecommunications economics must take TIØ4136 ICT Economics and one of the courses TIØ4140, TIØ4317 in their 4th year

Course materials

To be announced.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From To
TIØ4700 15.0 AUTUMN 2007
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Facts

Version: 1
Credits:  15.0 SP
Study level: Second degree level

Coursework

Term no.: 1
Teaching semester:  AUTUMN 2023

Language of instruction: Norwegian

Location: Trondheim

Subject area(s)
  • Technological subjects

Examination

Examination arrangement: Work

Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
Autumn ORD Work 100/100

Release
2023-12-07

Submission
2023-12-14


09:00


23:59

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Room Building Number of candidates
  • * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
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