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The Department of Financial Markets is a hub for research, teaching, and innovation in the field of finance. Our goal at the department is to gain deeper insights into financial market mechanisms, especially the behavior of agents in these markets and the resulting implications for asset prices. The department is part of the Institute for Finance (FBV) and led by Julian Thimme, Professor for Finance. It evolved from the Junior Professorship for Finance, which was established in 2019.
The review session of the FinTech exam will take place on 27.10.2025 at 14:00 in room 209 in building 09.21 (Blücherstraße 17). Please register in advance by e-mail.
Take part in the "Podcast Seminar in Financial Economics" this winter. Participants will produce a podcast in which they explain new study results from the field of financial economics. Apply by October 13 via the WiWi portal.
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The course "Quantitative Finance" in the winter semester 2025/2026 is aimed at teaching Bachelor's students to link financial theory with empirical evidence and test cornerstone models across equity, bond, and options markets while developing Python-based data analysis skills.
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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.
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For the 4rd time we held the TBEAR network meeting at KIT. For more information visit the website:
TBEAR Website
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."
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In January, 2024, 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
Learn the basic concepts of Asset Pricing in our lecture in the summer term 2025. Students doing their Masters welcome!
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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!
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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.
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Master students are welcome to apply for a spot in our seminar. Deadline: 1 April 2022.
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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 fanchen.meng@kit.edu.