Teaching at the Institute of Banking and Finance

Area of Expertise in Business Administration, Business Administration III

• Refresher Tutorial Investment and Finance (270080)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Mon. 14:30 - 16:00 | I-063	von Knoblauch
  Contents:	This course aims to prepare students who need to take the re-examaniation BWL III and covers key topics of the lecture Investitionen und Finanzierung.

Area of Expertise in Business Administration

• Seminar Empirical Research in Finance (271022)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Dierkes, Krupski
  Contents:	In this empirically oriented seminar, students independently work on capital market-related issues using numerical software (R or Python). The results are then evaluated economically and presented scientifically.
  Comments:	Please check the institute's website for the date of the introductory meeting. Examiner: Prof. Dr. Dierkes

• Introduction to Scientific Research (271042)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Schulting
  Contents:	This course provides fundamental knowledge of scientific working: structuring a scientific paper, providing a literature review, finding appropriate data sources, and how to analyze data sets with suitable quantitative methods. The introductory course to scientific working methods particulalry prepares students to independently write a seminar paper, term paper or thesis at the IBF or in the field of finance. It addresses the requirements for the design of scientific papers and literature reviews. In addition, the basics of LaTeX and analytical software (Python, R) are taught. The latter are particularly important as all theses and seminars at the IBF include an empirical analysis.
  Comments:	We strongly recommend that students who are writing a seminar paper, term paper or thesis at the IBF for the first time attend this course. The introduction to academic work at the IBF takes place as a face-to-face course over several sessions in the first weeks of the lecture period. It consists of lectures on the individual subject areas and practical exercises using the software presented. The course is organised via the Stud.IP event. In addition, we provide an ILIAS module that contains an alternative introduction to R.

• Decision Analysis (271052)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Mon. 12:45 - 14:15 | I-401	Dierkes
  Contents:	Students learn how to improve decision making processes. Following a discussion of important structural aspects of decision problems, I will specifically cover multi-attribute decision making, decisions under risk and uncertainty, and decision making with incomplete information. Potential applications cover various fields such as economics, politics, and medicine as well as personal life. I will also discuss typical biases in individual decision making.
  Literature:	Eisenführ, F., Weber, M., & Langer, T. (2010). Rational decision making. Springer. Eisenführ, F., & Weber, M. Rationales Entscheiden. (6. überarbeitete Auflage 2025). Springer-Verlag.

• Exercise Decision Analysis (271060)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Mon. 14:30 - 16:00 | VII-004	Krupski
  Contents:	Students learn how to improve decision making processes. Following a discussion of important structural aspects of decision problems, I will specifically cover multi-attribute decision making, decisions under risk and uncertainty, and decision making with incomplete information. Potential applications cover various fields such as economics, politics, and medicine as well as personal life. I will also discuss typical biases in individual decision making.
  Literature:	Eisenführ, F., Weber, M., & Langer, T. (2010). Rational decision making. Springer. Eisenführ, F., & Weber, M. (6. überarbeitete Auflage 2025). Rationales Entscheiden. Springer-Verlag.

Area Finance, Banking & Insurance

• Seminar Banking and Finance (374000)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Dierkes, Schulting
  Contents:	Students write a term paper (Seminararbeit) on selected topics of finance and present their work in a final meeting which also includes group discussion.
  Literature:	Will be provided in time by the supervisors.
  Comments:	Examiner: Prof. Dr. Dierkes

• Financial Intermediation (374010)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Mon. 16:15 - 17:45 | I-301	Dierkes
  Contents:	This lecture provides a comprehensive understanding of financial institutions and markets. Focus is on selected theoretical models and their empirical evaluation. Topics include risk management and regulation of financial intermediaries, asset pricing and corporate finance.
  Literature:	Cochrane, J.H.: Asset Pricing. Princeton University Press. 2010. Degryse, H., Moshe, K., Ongena, S.: Microeconomics of Banking: Methods, Applications, and Results . MIT Press. 2009. Freixas, X., Rochet, J.-C.: Microeconomics of Banking. MIT Press. 2008. Saunders, A., Cornett, M.M.: Financial Institutions Management – A risk management approach. McGraw-Hill. 2017. More Literature will be announced in class.
  Comments:	Diese Veranstaltung kann nicht belegt werden, wenn bereits Leistungspunkte im Modul "Banking and Finance II" (Belegnummer 374010) erworben wurden.

• Seminar Corporate Finance (374026)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Dierkes, von Knoblauch
  Contents:	In this empirically oriented seminar, students independently work on practical issues of company valuation with the help of numerical software (Excel, Matlab, R, Python). The results are then evaluated economically and presented scientifically.
  Comments:	The seminar takes place as a block course. Evaluation is based on the seminar paper and its presentation. Please refer to the website for further details, especially for the schedule.

• Introduction to Scientific Research (374027)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Schulting
  Contents:	This course provides fundamental knowledge of scientific working: structuring a scientific paper, providing a literature review, finding appropriate data sources, and how to analyze data sets with suitable quantitative methods. The introductory course to scientific working methods particulalry prepares students to independently write a seminar paper, term paper or thesis at the IBF or in the field of finance. It addresses the requirements for the design of scientific papers and literature reviews. In addition, the basics of LaTeX and analytical software (Python, R) are taught. The latter are particularly important as all theses and seminars at the IBF include an empirical analysis.
  Comments:	We strongly recommend that students who are writing a seminar paper, term paper or thesis at the IBF for the first time attend this course. The introduction to academic work at the IBF takes place as a face-to-face course over several sessions in the first weeks of the lecture period. It consists of lectures on the individual subject areas and practical exercises using the software presented. The course is organised via the Stud.IP event. In addition, we provide an ILIAS module that contains an alternative introduction to R.

• Exercise Financial Intermediation (374042)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Tue. 16:15 - 17:45 | I-342 (Group 1)	Budras
  	Mon. 11:00 - 12:30 | I-442 (Group 2)	Schulting
  Contents:	This lecture provides a comprehensive understanding of financial institutions and markets. Focus is on selected theoretical models and their empirical evaluation. Topics include risk management and regulation of financial intermediaries, asset pricing and corporate finance.
  Literature:	Cochrane, J.H.: Asset Pricing. Princeton University Press. 2005. Degryse, H., Moshe, K., Ongena, S.: Microeconomics of Banking: Methods, Applications, and Results . MIT Press. 2009. Freixas, X., Rochet, J.-C.: Microeconomics of Banking. MIT Press. 2008. Saunders, A., Cornett, M.M.: Financial Institutions Management – A risk management approach. McGraw-Hill. 2007. More Literature will be announced in video conference.
  Comments:	Vorbereitung zur Klausur Financial Intermediation in Form asynchroner Lehre mit Übungen in ILIAS (Ilias-Ilias)

3. Area: Scientific skills

• Doctoral Seminar Finance (574001)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Block course	Dierkes, Dräger, Prokopczuk, Schneider
  Contents:	PhD students in finance present their research projects.

• Finance Research Seminar (77782)

  	Time and room:	Lecturer:
  	Wed. 11:00 - 12:30 | I-442	Blaufus, Dierkes, Dräger, Gassebner, Prokopczuk, Reichert, Schneider, Schröder, Sibbertsen, Sönksen, Todtenhaupt
  Contents:	External guests present their latest research