Detailed information about the schedule in the current semester can be found on the relevant seminar pages (just click on the links below).

Units on Fridays from 09:00 to 10:30 are dealing with StatMath research contents, the other units with research in finance.

General table of contents:

Finance Research Seminar:

• Corporate Finance
• Asset Pricing
• Quantitative Methods in Finance

StatMath Research Seminar:

• applied statistical research in economics, in finance, and in the social sciences
• Bayesian methods
• computational statistics
• mathematical statistics
• mathematical finance
• Monte Carlo methods
• optimization
• stochastic modelling
• time series analysis

Due to COVID-19, there are no attendance requirements.

submission of choices and final referee report

Each student has to select at least 7 papers each (Math/Fin) (overview of the titles below)

Each student can choose 7 of these to read

For each of the 7, they have to give a short summary, which contains the following criteria (in a few sentences):
-    Research question
-    Research design
-    most important results
-    Biggest weakness/largest potential for improvement

From these 7 the instructors select 2 per student

For these 2 they have to write a comprehensive report in the style of a referee report

• Successful completion of at least 42 ECTS credits from the compulsory common courses in the first year of studies.
• Decision for the Science Track after the first year.