Statistics School Extension - An Introduction to Financial Risk Management

Europe/Berlin
SR4 (DESY Hamburg)

SR4

DESY Hamburg

Description
In this 2x45 lectures you will get information on - how investment risks are estimated in the finanical sector, e.g. on the Value-at-Risk (the maximum loss which will not be exceeed with a given probability) - the underlying mathematical/statistical concepts and tools. The lecturer, Thorsten Oest, was formerly an experimental particle physicist (working in Jade, Argus, Aleph and HERA-b) and is working since the early 2000's for the company d-fine Gmbh, a consulting firm in the field of risk and finance.
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