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"Empirical Asset Pricing" in the summer semester

The course "Advanced Empirical Asset Pricing" in the summer semester 2025 is aimed at Master's students interested in a specialisation in asset pricing. Basic knowledge from the course "Asset Pricing" is helpful.

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Lecture on "Asset Pricing" the upcoming summer term

Learn the basic concepts of Asset Pricing in our lecture in the summer term 2025. Students doing their Masters welcome!  

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Congratulations, Dr. Viktoria Klaus!

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.

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Faculty Award 2024

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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TBEAR Network Meeting

For the 3rd time we held the TBEAR network meeting at KIT. For more information visit the website:

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AFA, Texas

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:

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Seminar "Macro finance"

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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Lecture on "FinTech"

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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Become a new team member!

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.

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Seminar "Big Data in Finance"

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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Seminar "Machine Learning Stock Returns with Option Data"

Master students are welcome to apply for a spot in our seminar. Deadline: 1 April 2022.

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Hiwi wanted!

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.