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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.
Johannes Dinger has also won the BAI Science Award of the Bundesverband Alternative Investments e.V. with his master thesis "Sources Behind the Variance Risk Premium on German Treasury Bond Markets".
Awarded theses
2021-10-12: In the upcoming semester, we offer the course Bond Markets (taught in English), which covers the basics of pricing fixed-income securities as well as interest, credit, and liquidity risks. Together with its two sister courses Bond Markets - Models and Derivatives(ILIAS) and Bond Markets - Tools and Applications(ILIAS), both of which also take place in the winter semester, the event can be combined into a full module. We would be pleased to welcome you to these events!
ILIAS Bond Markets
2021-10-01: The exams of the summer term2021 can be reviewed between October 22, 2021 and October 28, 2021. Due to the current situation, registration via email is mandatory. For details, please refer to the attached file (in German).
Detailled information (German)
2021-06-24: During the annual faculty celebration, the teaching awards for the winter semester 2020/21 were presented. Prof. Dr. Uhrig-Homburg and the tutor Philipp Cölsch were awarded a teaching prize for the new lecture "Bond Markets" and the corresponding exercises. In addition, our seminar "Finance auf den Punkt gebracht - Produktion eines eLearning-Vidoes" with the supervisors Philipp Cölsch, Fabian Eska and Prof. Dr. Uhrig-Homburg received an award.
Our teaching awards
2021-06-24: For his outstanding dissertation Asset Pricing Bricks, Dr. Marcel Müller was awarded the Science Award of the KIT-Department of Economics and Management. We congratulate on this success!
Details and video message
2021-06-14: Johannes Dinger's bachelor thesis "Sources behind the Variance Risk Premium on German Government Bond Markets" comes in 2nd Place of the Research Award of the Swiss Derivative Awards 2021. We congratulate!
Award theses
2021-05-07: The master's thesis "Capital requirements and option returns" by our colleague Caroline Grauer has been awarded by the SEW-EURODRIVE Foundation 2020 study prize. Congratulations!
Awarded theses
2021-04-06: The exams of the winter semester 2020/21 can be viewed between April 26 and April 29 in Blücherstraße 17. Please note that registration for viewing is mandatory.
