Financial Risk Management

After a successful completion of the course students should be able to

• understand and explain how risk management is related to other issues in corporate finance
• critically assess different motivations for corporate risk management
• understand and critically assess different risk measures and how they are applied in practice
• understand and explain how international risks can be managed and how the management of international risks is related to various economic parity conditions
• understand, analyze and critically apply measures and methods to manage interest rate risk
• understand, analyze and critically apply measures and methods to manage credit risk
• understand, analyze and critically apply hedging strategies for commodity price risk.