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.
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
03.07.2024: 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 theses
April 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
April 3, 2024: The Gaul Lecture Award, conferred annually, honors a preeminent international scholar whose exceptional contributions have profoundly shaped an area of research in the fields of mathematics, economics, or computer science. This year, the KIT Depatment of Economics and Management is awarding this prize to Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Josef Zechner, Professor of Finance and Investments at WU Wien and Co-head of the Research Institute for Capital. On Thursday, April 11, 2024, Prof. Zechner will give the public Gaul Lecture on the topic: "Externalities and the Objective of the Firm in Capitalist Economies" from 16:00-17:30. We look forward to welcoming everyone interested. The lecture will take place at the KIT-Campus South in building 10.11, room 223 (Alter Senatssaal).
Further Information
April 3, 2024: The review for the exams of winter semester 2023/24 will take place on Monday, April 22, 2024 at Blücherstraße 17 (building 09.21) in room 124. Further information can be found via the link below.
Further Information (German)
January 19, 2024: In the upcoming summer semester, we are offering the Master's seminar in Finance with the topic "Quantitative Trading Competition". Further information can be found here and on the Wiwi-Portal.
Announcement (German)