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Master Seminar of the Finance and Banking Research Group
Important
If you have already passed a Master seminar of the Finance and Banking Research Group, you will not be able to participate in a second seminar of the Finance and Banking Research Group. However, if you like seminars, you are free to take other research groups' seminars.
Basic idea
- Our Master seminar helps you to develop your scientific reasoning beyond Bachelor level and prepare your Master thesis.
- Our seminars are strictly application-oriented/empirical. That way you should see that clear-cut solutions from theoretical models usually become ambiguous when practically applied.
Time schedule for the next seminars and registration
Service provided by our research group
- Advice
- In principle, we are happy to help you wherever we can. However, we will answer only specific questions (and not questions like "Where did I make a mistake?“ or "I have no idea how to start?“).
- Each participants gets an extensive feedback (approximately 60 minutes) on the intermediate presenation.
- Questions regarding the basic use of Excel will not be answered.
- Data
- Advice
Examination (graded and not graded components)
- The Master seminar is worth 6 ECTS.
- Studienleistungen (part of the module that is not graded, but must be passed): intermediate presentation (20 minutes)
- Prüfungsleistung (part of the module that is graded): paper (4 LP) (12 pages and executive summary) and presentation (2 LP) (20 minutes)
Topics
It is not possible to suggest your own topics. Instead, you must choose topics from the following list:
1. Term structure of interest rate
2. Performance measurement: various measures and the resulting changes in rankings
3. Calculation of value at risk in different variants
4. Valuation models for ESG
5. Portfolio selection for stocks (incl. ESG)
6. Hedging
7. Calibrating of models to be able to use them practically.Guidelines regarding formal requirements and scientific quotation