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Undergraduate Record 2024-2025
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ECON 4175 - A History of Risk Management
Effective Date 09/28/2023
This course examines the meaning of risk and the history of risk management from the Bronze Age through the Digital Age. This course links together our natural aversion to loss and our attempts throughout history to mitigate loss and hedge risk. Students learn about markets designed to diversify risks such as futures, forwards, and insurance along with the co-evolution of probability theory as a tool to both understand and price risks.
Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ECON 4559 topic #31 Risk Management and students must have completed ECON 3010 or ECON 3110
Credits: 3
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