Welcome!
The Junior Professorship for Finance, which was established in 2019, is part of the Institute for Finance (FBV), which also includes the Department of Financial Engineering and Derivatives, the Department of Finance and Banking, and the Department of Financial Economics and Risk Management. The junior professorship is held by Julian Thimme.
Our team member Viktoria successfully defended her thesis "Asset Pricing with News". Congratulations! We loose a fantastic colleague and wish her all the best for her professional career.
Tobias Carlé wins the Faculty Award 2024 with his master's thesis "Collateralized Loan Obligations and the Effect of ESG Events."
More information
For the 3rd time we held the TBEAR network meeting at KIT. For more information visit the website:
TBEAR Website
In January Viktoria presented her work on CLO's trading behavior at the Annual Meeting of the American Finance Association in San Antonia, Texas. Find the current working paper here:
Working Paper
Join us this winter semester 2023/24 in our Bachelor seminar on the topic of "Macro Finance". The deadline for application via WiWi Portal is October 8. We're looking forward to seeing you!
More information
Financial institutions provide services that are important for the smooth allocation of capital in an economy. However, recent technological advances allow companies called "FinTechs" to challenge banks' traditional business models. This lecture will discuss recent developments and opportunities in Centralized and Decentralized Finance.
More information
The course "Advanced Empirical Asset Pricing" in the winter semester 2023/2024 is aimed at Master's students interested in a specialisation in asset pricing. Basic knowledge from the course "Asset Pricing" is helpful.
More information
We are looking for a new PhD candidate (m/f/d) who would like to join our team as a research assistant. You find more information in the job advertisement linked below. If you are interested, please contact us directly at thimme@kit.edu.
In this master seminar, various recent papers at the intersection of the fields of Big Data and Finance will be discussed. In addition, students will complement the discussion with our their analyses of a dataset that is provided by us.
More information
Register for our seminar on financial crises until Oktober 5th! Students must be in a Bachelor program.
More information
Master students are welcome to apply for a spot in our seminar. Deadline: 1 April 2022.
More information
In the upcoming summer semester we offer the course "Derivatives". It can be attended by students in the Bachelor as well as in the Master program.
More information
Learn the basic concepts of "Asset Pricing" in our lecture in the summer term 2022. Students doing their Masters welcome!
Students from our faculty can get vaccinated against COVID-19 on January 7, 8, and 9. Together with other professors of the department, Julian Thimme will support the vaccination event.
More information
In the winter semester 2021/2022, we are offering a Bachelor seminar on the topic of "FinTech on the Rise".
More information
We're looking for a motivated student with programming skills to work on one of our projects (20h per month). Sounds good? Send your CV and transcript to viktoria.klaus@kit.edu.