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 is only an online attendance requirement for the selected seminar presentations.

submission of choices, synopses and final presentations

timeline for RS2:

•  June 11: submission of list of 7 papers
• June 14: selection of a list of 3 from the 7 by Prof. Hornik
• July 5: submission of synopses for 2 out of 3
•  July 7: presentations via MS Teams

How to proceed:

· Please select at least 7 papers each here (Stat/Math) and here (VGSF/Finance) and send it directly to Prof. Hornik (kurt.hornik@wu.ac.at) with the subject: QFin Research Seminar – List of Preferred Papers

· Submit your synopses here with the filename: LastName_syn[Code], e.g. Pajic_synF05

• 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.