AEM 6410

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AEM 6410
Commodity Futures and Options

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This course focuses on markets for agricultural futures and options contracts. Lectures address hedging and risk management with futures and options as well as the structure of risk and random walks.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Outcomes
  • Explain the role of futures, options, and other derivatives in the pricing of agricultural products.
  • Price forwards and options ("pricing models").
  • Explain the fundamental probabilities and dynamics describing asset risk.
  • Develop and understand hedging and trading strategies with derivatives.
  • Use derivatives to reallocate risk.
  • Use derivatives for corporate risk management.
  • Explain the financial crisis arose and how to prevent it.
  • Explain how to design and value financially engineered products including exotic options and weather derivatives.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AEM 4210

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18386 AEM 6410   LEC 001

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    • MWF
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Turvey, C

  • Enrollment limited to: Master of Science (MS), Master of Professional Studies (MPS), and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) students.