R M - Risk Management
Risk Management: R M
Lower-Division Courses
R M X19S. Topics in Risk Management.
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
Upper-Division Courses
R M X29S. Topics in Risk Management.
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
R M X40S. Topics in Risk Management.
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office or the school's BBA Exchange Programs. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence.
R M X57E. Introduction to Risk Management.
Principles of risk management for individuals and organizations, financial aspects of insurance companies and markets, industry structure, managerial aspects of underwriting and pricing, and public policy issues.
R M X69K. Managing Employee Risks and Benefits.
Risk management issues involving financial consequences of life and health contingencies, health care finance, company management, pension planning, economics of industry structure, and public policy issues.
R M X76. Quantitative Methods in Finance.
Explores quantitative methods and techniques in optimization and simulation, and their use in financial decision making. Discusses theory and application in portfolio selection, options and other derivative pricing, index tracking, risk measures, volatility estimating. Specific topics will include linear, quadratic, nonlinear, and integer programming; dynamic programming; robust optimization; Monte Carlo methods and variance reduction techniques. Emphasis will be placed on problem solving with advanced computational programming languages.
R M X77. Property-Liability Risk Management and Planning.
Analysis of property-liability risks of businesses, risk management tools, risk financing, and insurance contracts for financial planning purposes; investment and underwriting operations, market structures, and insurance regulation.
R M X79. Independent Research in Risk Management.
Graduate Courses
R M X91. Topics in Decision Analysis.
R M X91.1. Decision Analysis.
Descriptive and normative principles of decision making.
R M X91.2. Managing Decisions under Risk.
State-of-the-art methods and tools to analyze risky decisions and design optimal strategies. Practical knowledge and practice are emphasized.
R M X91.3. Research Issues in Decision Making.
Talks by students and faculty members with research interests in decision making, and group discussion of the talks and of students' decision-related research.
R M X91.4. Behavioral Decision Theory.
The psychology of decision making: how and why our judgments are more fallible than we ordinarily suppose, and the extent to which predictive judgment can be improved through use of normative strategies that tell us how we should make judgments and decisions.
R M X92. Topics in Quantitative Finance.
R M X92.1. Modeling and Optimization in Finance.
R M X92.2. Statistics for Finance.
R M X92.3. Financial Engineering.
R M X92.4. Mathematical Finance.
R M X92.5. Computational Finance.
R M X94. Topics in Business Analytics.
Selected topics in business analytics.
R M X94.1. Optimization I.
R M X94.2. Optimization II.
R M X95. Topics in Seminar: Risk Management.
R M X95.1. Corporate Risk Management.
Analysis of risk management and security needs of businesses and individuals; related insurance coverages and other tools available to deal with risk.
R M X95.2. Financial and Economic Aspects of Risk Management.
Analysis of risk management techniques and insurance company operations. Similarities between insurance pricing techniques and risk management methodology.
R M X95.3. Risk Management and Finance.
Examination of theories underlying risk management techniques for business and insurance mechanisms; theoretical analysis of problems and practices in risk management.
R M X95.5. Managing Environmental Risk.
R M X95.6. Risk Analysis and Management.
R M X95.7. Managing International Risk.
The global aspects of risk management; basic risk and crisis management principles pertinent to multinational firms; financially, legally, and culturally multinational marketplaces such as reinsurance markets, captive offshore insurance.
R M X95.8. Managing Employee Risks and Benefits.
Corporate planning and public policy issues associated with employee benefits.