João Pedro Bento Ruas
217903936 (Ext. 795121)
Office D5.37
Post Box 300
Teaching Activities
Teaching Year Semester Course Name Degree(s) Coordinator
2024/2025 Asset Pricing I Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Economics; Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Finance; Yes
2024/2025 Asset and Liability Management Master Degree in Finance; Yes
2024/2025 Investments Bachelor Degree in Management; No
2024/2025 Fundamentals of Computational Finance Institutional Degree in ISCTE Business School; Yes
2024/2025 Research Project in Finance -- Yes
2024/2025 Phd Thesis in Finance -- Yes
2024/2025 Investments and Financial Markets Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and Business Management; No
2024/2025 Financial Derivatives Post Graduation Program in Financial Markets and Risk Management; Yes
2024/2025 Phd Thesis in Finance Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Finance; Yes
2024/2025 Investment in Derivatives, Commodities and Foreign Exchange Other programme in Applied Online Financial Markets: Creation and Management of Portfolios.; Yes
2024/2025 Futures, Forwards and Swaps Master Degree in Finance; Yes
2023/2024 Asset Pricing I Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Economics; Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Finance; Yes
2023/2024 Asset and Liability Management Master Degree in Finance; Yes
2023/2024 Investments Bachelor Degree in Management; No
2023/2024 Fundamentals of Computational Finance Institutional Degree in ISCTE Business School; Yes
2023/2024 Investments and Financial Markets Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and Business Management; No
2023/2024 Investment in Derivatives, Commodities and Foreign Exchange Other programme in Applied Online Financial Markets: Creation and Management of Portfolios.; Yes
2023/2024 Futures, Forwards and Swaps Master Degree in Finance; Yes
2022/2023 Asset Pricing I Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Economics; Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Finance; Yes
2022/2023 Asset and Liability Management Master Degree in Finance; Yes
2022/2023 Investments Bachelor Degree in Management; No
2022/2023 Fundamentals of Computational Finance Institutional Degree in ISCTE Business School; Yes
2022/2023 Investments and Financial Markets Bachelor Degree in Computer Science and Business Management; No
2022/2023 Futures, Forwards and Swaps Master Degree in Finance; Yes
2021/2022 Asset Pricing I Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Economics; Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Finance; Yes
2021/2022 Asset and Liability Management Master Degree in Finance; Yes
2021/2022 Investments Bachelor Degree in Management; No
2021/2022 Fundamentals of Computational Finance Institutional Degree in ISCTE Business School; Yes
2021/2022 Investments Bachelor Degree in Finance and Accounting; No
2021/2022 Futures, Forwards and Swaps Master Degree in Finance; Yes
2020/2021 Asset Pricing I Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Economics; Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Finance; Yes
2020/2021 Asset and Liability Management -- Yes
2020/2021 Fundamentals of Finance Bachelor Degree in Economics; No
2020/2021 Financial Derivatives Master Degree in Monetary and Financial Economics; Yes
2020/2021 Fundamentals of Computational Finance Institutional Degree in ISCTE Business School; Yes
2019/2020 Financial Derivatives Master Degree in Monetary and Financial Economics; Yes
2019/2020 Fundamentals of Computational Finance Institutional Degree in ISCTE Business School; Yes
Supervisions
Ph.D. Thesis (3)
Ongoing (2)
Student Name Title/Topic Language Status Institution Initial Year
João Diogo Barros Moura Financial Options: Options Returns, Hedging Strategy and Static Hedge Portfolio English Developing Iscte 2022
Luís Simão Almeida Ferreira Exact Simulation of Jump Diffusion Processes English Developing Iscte --
Concluded (1)
Student Name Title/Topic Language Institution Initial Year Concluding Year
Carlos Miguel Aguiar da Glória Essays on Dynamic Asset Pricing English Iscte 2022 2024
M.Sc. Dissertations (10)
Ongoing (5)
Student Name Title/Topic Language Status Institution Initial Year
João Pedro Gonçalves Frazão do Rosário The joint SPX/VIX calibration Developing Iscte 2025
Rafael Carreiras Ré The S&P 500 Risk-Neutral Moments Developing Iscte 2024
Miguel Natal de Brito Boto Implied Risk Neutral Distribution: Mixtures of t-distributions Developing Iscte 2024
José Miguel Mateus Serejo Rocha das Neves Risk-neutral distributions implied from stochastic volatility jump-diffusion models Developing Iscte 2024
Cláudio dos Santos Machado Implied risk-neutral distribution Developing Iscte 2024
Concluded (5)
Student Name Title/Topic Language Institution Initial Year Concluding Year
Mafalda Amaro Caneira the variance risk premium English Iscte 2024 2024
Duarte Miguel da Cunha Domingues Amador Marques Empirical Comparison of S&P 500 Index Options: Black-Scholes-Merton Model and Heston Model English Iscte 2023 2023
Raquel Lopes Coutinho Option pricing using machine learning methods Portuguese Iscte 2023 2023
João Pedro Gonçalves Cordeiro da Silva S&P 500 options term structure English Iscte 2022 2022
Pedro Miguel Tomás Carvalho The VIX Premium Puzzle Portuguese Iscte 2021 2021