Welcome
The chair has been founded in 2002 with the kindly support of the DZ BANK Foundation. Since 2004 it has been part of the then newly established Institute for Finance which also includes the Departments of Finance and Banking, Finance and Risk Management, and the Assistant Professorship of Finance.
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December 19, 2025: Our PhD student Matthias Molnar was in the USA in November and presented his working paper "Asset Pricing Results in Options Markets: True, Spurious, or Overlooked?" at the renowned FMA 2025 Conference on Derivatives and Volatility in Chicago as well as at the annual meeting of the Southern Finance Association in Orlando.
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December 19, 2025: Our chair was represented with four presentations at the annual conference of the German Finance Association (DGF) and experienced an interesting conference!
DGF 2025
December 17, 2025: Happy holidays and a happy new year from the entire FED team!
December 17, 2025: Following our call for applications in the summer "Experience Finance Research - With your application to DGF 2025", 3 students were selected to participate with us at this year's annual conference of the German Society for Finance (DGF) at the FernUni Hagen. Here you can find their short experience report (in German).
DGF 2025
December 12, 2025: The DFG has approved a second funding period for the research group FOR5230 "Financial Markets and Frictions" headed by Prof. Marliese Uhrig-Homburg (FBV). The consortium of six universities and WU Vienna is jointly supported by the DFG and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). In the new phase, the team is expanding its program to include demand-based asset pricing for the analysis of market dynamics. You can find more information here.
Website of the research unit FOR 5230
November 11, 2025: On Friday, November 14, 2025, Daniel Lenz from DZ BANK AG will give a practical lecture as part of our Bond Markets lecture. Details can be found here. Interested listeners are very welcome!
Finance Frontiers
September 03, 2025: The exam review of the summer semester 2025 will take place on Wednesday, November 03, 2025 at Blücherstraße 17 (building 09.21) in room 320. Further information can be found via the link below.
Further Information (German)
July 30, 2025: At the Dialogue Day of the KIT-Department of Economics and Management on 26 June 2025, Dr. Fabian Eska was awarded the Science Award 2024 in the category Business Administration for his dissertation "An Asset Pricing Perspective on the Design of Cryptocurrencies". We congratulate him!
Awards