Introduction to scientific working at IBF
The Institute for Banking and Financing offers an introduction in scientific work every semester, which provides all the knowledge necessary for a thesis or seminar thesis at the institute. A special focus is on working with the statistical analysis software R. Participation is mandatory for all students who want to write a seminar paper or thesis at the Institute for Banking and Finance in the academic year.
Dates in winter semester 2020/2021
The introduction to academic work at the Institute of Banking and Finance can be found as a learning module on ILIAS in the winter semester 2020/2021. The learning module includes an introduction to scientific work as well as an introduction to working with the statistical software R.
Quantitative/ Empirical Work
Each seminar and final thesis at the Institute for Banking and Finance comprises a theoretical and a quantitative part. Depending on the topic, it is an empirical or quantitative analysis. This requires the use of statistical-numerical software such as R, Matlab, Python or Stata. In the ILIAS learning module for the introduction to scientific work you will learn the basic knowledge of R which you need to get started. The contents linked here also provide some basic knowledge.
