Compulsory Electives

Compulsory Electives (Specialization), 15 ECTS in total to obtain   

choose from the offered modules offered, for example:

 

A. Behavioral Finance, 5 ECTS
Students acquire knowledge about market and portfolio anomalies, are enabled to apply techniques how to detect these anomalies, gain insight into psychological explanations and get to know models in Behavioral Finance.

 

B. Company Valuation,  5 ECTS
Students acquire a broad theory-based knowledge of company valuation techniques in different frameworks, become acquainted with finance software (e.g. Excel, MATLAB), develop an understanding of and experience with empirical analysis based on real data, and gain insights into valuation pitfalls and recent models.

 

C. Downside Risk, 5 ECTS
Students obtain a comprehensive theory-based knowledge of downside-oriented portfolio management, become familiar with finance software (e.g. Excel, MATLAB), and, thus, are able to conduct empirical analysis in the field of downside risk.

 

D. Economics of Growth, 10 ECTS
Students become acquainted with the recent advances in the theory and empirics of economic growth and long-run economic development, learn to master the relevant modeling techniques of dynamic economic analysis, gain a deeper understanding of the policy-relevant factors driving economic growth, and develop the ability to starting their own research on economic growth.

 

E. Monetary Economics, 5 ECTS
Students get introduced to the fundamentals of financial markets and monetary systems, become acquainted with different monetary aggregates and financial assets, gain insight into typical problems like deriving yield- or risk structures of interest rates, acquire knowledge about central bank systems, are enabled to cope with problems of money supply and interbank transactions.

 

F. Population and Family Economics, 5 ECTS
Students learn what economists have to say about individual decisions to marry, procreate, etc., become acquainted with topics and tools of quantitative economic analysis, acquire a profound knowledge of the empirics of marriage and fertility decisions, develop an understanding of the incentive structures within and around families, acquire knowledge how to evaluate policy measures targeted at demographic outcomes.