Empirical Finance
Lecture and Tutorial; Master; Summer Term; 5 CP; four mini case studies and term paper; English
“Wahlpflichtfach” for FACT and "BA&OR" students, “Wahlfach” for MARKT students
News
@ Master students in “FACT”: From now on you have the possibility to substitute the lecture "Unternehmenssteuerrecht" with the module "Empirical Finance".
Time and Room
Please check the KU.Campus system for information on lecture time and exam dates.
Learning outcomes
Students .....
...become familiar with selected econometric methods and test procedures typically applied in finance (in particular OLS, FGLS, panel methods and time series models)
...discuss conditions that are necessary in order to apply these methods and also ways to resolve possible issues.
...draw up regression analyses for selected applications and interpret the outcome, in the context of exercises and case studies.
... learn how to use the statistic software Stata for solving statistical problems in finance.
Schedule
The lecture as well as the tutorial will be held Tuesdays (12.15pm - 1.45pm) and Wednesdays (12.15pm - 1.45pm) except on holidays.
Introduction and distribution of topics for the presentation will be announced later.
Lecture documents
All documents can be found in ILIAS.
Grading
20 % four mini case studies
80 % Term Paper
Organisational recommendations and prerequisites
No prerequisites necessary. The lecture should be attended in the first or second semester as preparation for further empirical work.