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.
March 26th, 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.
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December 19, 2025: Our chair was represented with four presentations at the annual conference of the German Finance Association (DGF) and experienced an interesting conference!
DGF 2025
December 17, 2025: Happy holidays and a happy new year from the entire FED team!
December 17, 2025: Following our call for applications in the summer "Experience Finance Research - With your application to DGF 2025", 3 students were selected to participate with us at this year's annual conference of the German Society for Finance (DGF) at the FernUni Hagen. Here you can find their short experience report (in German).
DGF 2025
December 12, 2025: The DFG has approved a second funding period for the research group FOR5230 "Financial Markets and Frictions" headed by Prof. Marliese Uhrig-Homburg (FBV). The consortium of six universities and WU Vienna is jointly supported by the DFG and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). In the new phase, the team is expanding its program to include demand-based asset pricing for the analysis of market dynamics. You can find more information here.
Website of the research unit FOR 5230