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Bachelor Seminar Empirical Finance and Econometrics
Description
Our chair continuously offers the Bachelor seminar "Empirical Finance and Econometrics".
In this seminar you learn about Financial Market Analysis, Forecasting, Empirical Asset Pricing and Machine Learning.
Students have to write a seminar paper and present the results to the other participants in a blocked seminar.
Requirements
- An independent empirical of quantitative study forms the core of the work.
- For topic selection, please hand in a preference list with at least 3 topics.
- Scope: Alone 12 pages (+/-1 page), 14 pages (+/-1 page) for groups of 2 and 17 pages (+/-1 page) for groups of 3.
- In group work, students must clearly indicate who was responsible for which part of the work (it is possible for more than one student in the group to be responsible for a chapter). Each student will receive an individual mark.
- Use of an appropriate statistical programming language (such as Python, R, MATLAB, etc.) is recommended.
- A mere literature review is not sufficient.
- The seminar paper can be written either in German or in English.
- Further tips and formal requirements can be found in the guidelines.
- Assessment: 60% written work, 40% presentation.
- A LaTeX-Template for writing the Seminar Paper can be foundhere.