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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.
06/28/2022: For our DFG research group "Financial Markets and Frictions" we announce a research grant explicitly for female scientists. The application deadline is 08/31/22.
Current Projects
06/28/22: In this year's Dialog Day of the KIT-Department of Economics an Management, Dr. Reichenbacher's dissertation was awarded the 2021 Science Award of the KIT-Department of Economics and Management in the subject of Business Administration. In addition, Dr. Eberbach again received the Teaching Award SS21 for the exercise Investments.
2022/05/10: On May 18, 2022 at 3:45pm (in timeslot of derivatives exercise) there will be a practical lecture on tregulation of derivative financial instruments by PwC
GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft. Further information can be found under the link below. We are looking forward to your participation!
2022/04/22: The exam review of WS 21/22 will take place on 22/05/02 at our office in Blücherstraße. Further details can be found under the following link.
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2022/03/21: In the coming semester, we will offer the seminar "Machine Learning Stock Returns with Option Data" for master students. The application period runs until April 1.
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2021/12/23: We are very pleased about the approval of the German Research Foundation for our proposed research group "Financial Markets and Frictions - an Intermediary Asset Pricing Approach". Start of the project is January 2022.
Current Projects
2021/12/20: Congratulations to Rico Mix on being accepted into the WiWi-Talents gifted program. Our chair also gets an award! Please find further informations on the programm using the link below.
WiWi-Talents
2021/12/15: The Master's thesis "Measuring European CO2 Policy Uncertainty and its Impact on Financial Markets" by Daniel Wiswesser has been proposed and accepted for theSparkassen-Umwelt-Preis 2021. The prize will be awarded to him at a ceremony in summer 2022.
Awarded theses