The seminar is dedicated to advanced topics in the field of finance and financial control. It particularly addresses the following fields of interest:
- Applied financial econometrics
- Asset pricing and capital market microstructure
- Empirical finance, Empirical corporate finance
- Risk management
- Financial control
The seminar is addressed to participants who actively want to enhance their understanding in selected parts of the above areas. Contents will be discussed based on the following (non-exclusive) list of references, see Literaturliste.
Participants should have acquired advanced skills in finance, applied statistics and econometrics, as well as background knowledge in probability theory and random processes
| Type of course: | Blocked Seminar |
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| Target Audience: PhD Students in Business and Economics with a research interest in Corporate Finance, Financial Economics, International Financial Markets, Financial Econometrics and / or Financial Control. |
| Veranstaltungstermine: | siehe StudIP |
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| Credit Points: | Creditable as a PhD Seminar |
| Contribution: | (i) Interactive contributions to the seminar discussion. ii) In-depth presentation of a relevant field of interest as treated in the references of Section II. Additionally, books from Sections I.1 and I.2 as well as individual book or literature review suggestions are possible choices. The presented field should relate to one reference or to several chapters of two references. All selections are subject to individual arrangement between supervisor and candidate. iii) Based on the field of interest in (ii), a written three page research proposal, which includes benchmark paper references and the basic research idea. |
| Examination: | Slide presentation of a relevant field of interest as treated in the above list of relevant references and contributions to seminar discussion |
| Prekognition: | Advanced knowledge in statistics, econometrics, as well as probability theory and random processes. |
| Application: | Application via Email (fincon@uni-passau.de) |
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