Teaching
The Chair of Finance provides courses designed to equip students with in-depth knowledge and practical skills in banking and finance. Find detailed course information and administrative details on Wuestudy.
Bachelor
The course Financial Markets Fundamentals offers a comprehensive introduction to the structure, functioning, and principles of financial markets.
- Course language: German
- Offered: Every winter term
The Bachelor seminar covers current topics in financial economics, focusing on the analysis of recent academic literature and emerging trends in finance, with topics changing each term.
- Course language: German/English
- Offered: Summer and winter
- Application: Please apply via the central allocation procedure of the dean of studies office.
The Chair of Finance offers the opportunity to have internships accredited as key qualifications.
Potential topics for Bachelor theses at the Chair of Finance cover a wide range of current issues in financial economics, including empirical analyses of stock market reactions to corporate social responsibility, M&A announcements, or the influence of media and search queries on financial markets. Topics may also explore areas such as the banking sector, FinTech/cryptocurrency markets, or the role of central bank communications.
- Course language: German/English
- Offered: Summer and winter
- Application: Please apply via the central allocation procedure of the dean of studies office.
Master
The course Banking and Regulation provides a comprehensive overview of the theory of banking, covering topics such as the role and behavior of banks, risk-taking, banking instability, and the need for regulation.
- Course language: English
- Offered: Every winter term
The course Empirical Banking and Finance covers microeconometric methods, explores empirical identification strategies and discusses their applications in the field of banking and finance.
- Course language: English
- Offered: Every summer term
The course Efficiently Inefficient Financial Markets explores trading strategies used by sophisticated investors and their role in financial markets. Topics include equity long-short, macro, momentum, factor-based investing, and statistical arbitrage, emphasizing their theoretical foundations and practical applications.
- Course language: English
- Offered: Every summer term
The course Research in Management, taught jointly with Prof. Dr. Benedikt Franke, introduces foundational research methods in management, covering data work and empirical strategies such as textual analysis, event studies, causal inference with non-experimental data, and basic experiments.
- Course language: English
- Offered: Every summer term
The Master seminar covers current topics in financial economics, focusing on the analysis of recent academic literature and emerging trends in finance, with topics changing each term.
- Course language: German/English
- Offered: Summer and winter
- Application: Please apply via the central allocation procedure of the dean of studies office.
Potential topics for Master theses at the Chair of Finance cover a wide range of current issues in financial economics, including empirical analyses of stock market reactions to corporate social responsibility, M&A announcements, or the influence of media and search queries on financial markets. Topics may also explore areas such as the banking sector, FinTech/cryptocurrency markets, or the role of central bank communications.
- Course language: German/English
- Offered: Summer and winter
- Application: Please apply via the central allocation procedure of the dean of studies office.
