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Bachelor Seminar of the Finance and Banking Research Group

  • Basic idea

    • Our Bachlor seminar helps you to develop your scientific reasoning and prepare you for the Bachelor thesis.

    • Our seminars are strictly application-oriented/empirical. That way you should see that clear-cut solutions from theoretical models usually become ambiguous when practically applied.

  • Time schedule for the next seminars and registration

  • Components

    • Course on correct scientific quotation: You must correct the quotation mistakes of a sample thesis.

    • Presentation of a topic from the topic section where the presentation must comprise the following components:
      • Introduction into and motivation of the topic
      • Data set must be cleaned.
      • At least one empirical result must be presented.

    • Written version of the introduction to the topic that contains the following components:
      • Why is the topic important/What is the specific problem that you try to solve?
      • Objective of the analysis
      • Research design

    • Excel file with the required computations

    • You do not have to submit a paper.

  • Examination (graded and not graded components)

    • The Bachelor seminar is worth 6 ECTS..

    • Studienleistungen (part of the module that must be passed):
      • Exercise on correct scientific quotation
      • Exercise on how to write an introduction to the topic
      • Exercise on the implementation of your computations in Excel

    • Prüfungsleistung (part of the module that is usually graded; in our particular case, however, it is not graded ): presentation (15 minutes)

  • Recommendations

    • In principle, you can do the seminar in the summer or the winter semester, in connection with or independent of the Bachelor thesis.

    • However, we strongly recommend connecting your Bachelor seminar with your Bachelor thesis. In that event, the feedback you will receive on your seminar can be used to improve your Bachleor thesis.

  • Topics

    • You must choose your general topic from the following list. However, within the general topic you can choose an individual focus.
    • General topics

    1. Comparison of classical investment analysis and investment theory using empirical data
    2. Empirical estimation of the term structure
    3. Construction of arbitrages on the bond market: an empirical analysis
    4. Investment analysis with taxes: an empirical analysis
    5. Computation of risk measures (variance, LPM, Value at Risk etc.) using empirical data
    6. Bond portfolio management: empirical implementation of duration-based approaches
    7. Portfolio management with stocks: empirical implementation
    8. CAPM and its empirical implementation
    9. Option pricing based on empirical data
    10. Empirical implementation of hedging

  • References