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.
May 20, 2026: Tom Meister was awarded the SEW-EURODRIVE Foundation 2025 Study Prize for his master's thesis "Look-ahead Bias in Empirical Option Returns". We are delighted for him and congratulate him warmly!
Awarded theses
April 14, 2026: Dr. Marcel Müller presented his working paper "Same Same But Different: The Risk Profile of Corporate Bond ETFs" at the Frontiers of Factor Investing Conference 2026 in Lancaster.
Marcel Müller
April 8, 2026: The exam review for winter term 2025/26 will take place on Wednesday, April 22 at Blücherstraße 17 (building 09.21) in room 320. Further information can be found via the link below.
Further Information (German)
March 27, 2026: Our PhD Tobias Kargus presented his current work entitled "Hedging Renewables with Location Spreads" at the 20th ENERDAY Conference in Dresden.
Tobias Kargus
March 26, 2026: Our PhD student Dr. Anian Roppel was awarded with the 2nd place at the Swiss Derivatives Awards 2026 for the Working Paper "Option-implied lower bound beliefs and the impact of negative interest rates". The Working Paper is part of his dissertation "Macro-Finance, Asset-Pricing and the Role of Investor Beliefs". We congratulate him warmly!
Awards
March 2, 2026: In the upcoming summer semester we offer the seminar in Finance (Master) with the topic "Structured Products - Pricing & Risk Management". Further information can be found here and in the Wiwi-Portal.
Announcement
March 1, 2026: Our PhD student Tobias Kargus presented his working paper Multi-Market Coupling Model: A Residual Demand Approach at the 9th Commodity Markets Winter Workshop in Austria. In 2025, he presented his work already at renowned international commodity conferences, e.g. in Leeds (UK) at EURO2025, in Houston (US) at CEMA 2025 and in Viterbo (IT) at Energy Finance Italia 2025, among other presentations within Germany.
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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 Conference on Derivatives and Volatility in Chicago as well as at the annual meeting of the Southern Finance Association in Orlando.
Matthias Molnar