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.
January 20, 2025: In the coming summer semester we are offering a Master's seminar on the "Quantitative Trading Game". You can find the announcement here. The dates of the allocation rounds of the faculty apply.
Seminars
Novemeber 11, 2024: On Friday, November 15, 2024, at 11:30 a.m. on Campus B, Daniel Lenz from DZ BANK AG will give a talk on the current economic situation as part of the "Bond Markets" lecture. We welcome everybody who is interested!
Finance Frontiers
October 16, 2024: The exam review from the summer semester 2024 will take place on Thursday, October 31, 2024 at Blücherstraße 17 (building 09.21) in room 124. Further information can be found via the link below.
Further Information (German)
October 11, 2024: Our team attended the annual conference of the German Finance Association (DGF) in Aachen. Several of our PhD students gave presentations on their current working paper. The working papers of two PhD students from our research group "Financial Markets and Frictions" even won the Best Paper Award! Congratulations!
Research Unit "Financial Markets and Frictions"
July 4, 2024: On Tuesday, July 16, 2024, a guest lecture by Daniel Lenz (DZ BANK AG) will take place as part of our Investments lecture. You can find the announcement via the link below. Interested parties are welcome!
Finance Frontiers
July 3rd, 2024: In the coming winter semester, we are offering our Seminar in Finance (Bachelor) with the topic "How Retail Investors Influence Stock Markets - The Case of GameStop" and our Video Seminar "Finance in a Nutshell". Further information can be found here and on the Wiwi-Portal.
Announcement (German)
June 24, 2024: Our graduate Markus Bilz has won the BAI Science Award 2024 with his master's thesis "Improving Option Trade Classification With Machine Learning" won the BAI Science Award 2024 . We congratulate and are delighted for him!
Awarded thesesApril 8, 2024: In the upcoming summer semester we offer the course Bond Markets - Models & Derivatives for Master students. The kick-off date will take place on April 16, 2024 at 16:30 in building 09.21 (Blücherstr. 17), room 209. The exam, which is worth 3 ECTS, can be credited both in the Finance 2 and Finance 3 modules and as a regular Master's seminar (Masterseminar Betriebswirtschaftslehre). Further information can be found via the link below.
Further Information
April 3, 2024: Our chair holder Prof. Dr. Marliese Uhrig-Homburg has been appointed by the DFG to the selection committee for the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize for an initial term of three years. The prestigious prize is awarded annually to outstanding scientists at an early stage of their careers and is intended as an incentive to pursue their scientific careers. We congratulate Prof. Uhrig-Homburg on this position and wish her every success on the jury.
More about the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize