General News

Due to the appointment of Prof. Dr. Hollstein as Dean of Studies, the teaching program is currently limited. The following courses will take place in the coming semesters:

Winter Semester 2025/2026: Mathematics for Economists.

Summer Semester 2026: Asset Pricing.

Winter Semester 2026/2027: Regular program with Mathematics for Economists and Advanced Econometrics.

Bachelor, Master and Doctoral Seminars take place each semester as usual and Bachelor and Master Theses can be started at any time…

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The Chair of Quantitative Methods is offering a pre-course in mathematics for Economics students during the first week before the start of the winter semester 2025/26 (06.10.2025 - 10.10.2025).
The aim of the course is to ease the transition into economics studies for first-year students by reviewing key mathematical concepts from upper secondary school.
Detailed information about the organization and content of the course can be found on the website.

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Due to the appointment of Prof. Dr. Hollstein as Dean of Studies, the course "Advanced Econometrics" will be offered in the summer semester 2025. Unfortunately, the courses "Time-Series Econometrics" and "Asset Pricing", which are usually offered in the summer semester, cannot be offered at present.

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Research News

Prof. Dr. Fabian Hollstein together with Prof. Dr. Maik Dierkes, Prof. Dr. Marcel Prokopczuk and Dr. Christoph Würsig, received a Special Prize from the Deutsche Bundesbank for scientific publications in the field of economics for the paper Measuring Tail Risk.

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The project "Advances in Empirical Asset Pricing" by Prof. Dr. Hollstein joint with Prof. Dr. Marcel Prokopczuk from Leibniz University Hannover will be funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for two years from 01.10.2025. Prof. Dr. Hollstein's share of the funding is € 176.077.

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Prof. Dr. Fabian Hollstein has been ranked on 24th place among the best business economist researchers under the age of 40 and on 66th place among the best business economist researchers of all age groups in the years 2020 to 2024 in German-speaking countries in the new ranking of the magazine WirtschaftsWoche from 13.12.2024 .

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