The Chair offers the following modules for the Bachelor's programmes in Economics, Business Information Systems and Business Education.

The password for the documents and Moodle courses is displayed in the showcase of the chair on the 3rd floor of the building of the Faculty of Economics and Management Science, across from the elevator. Additionally, it will be announced in each introductory session.

Mandatory Modules

Credit points: 5 LP
Examination: Written Examination
Language: German
Semester: Winter semester (recommended for the 1st semester)

The module presents the fundamentals, the subject-matter, and the methods of business administration. Students are enabled to explain the sub-fields and functions of business administration. They will be able to evaluate the meaning of those functions for a business and describe the relationships between the individual sub-fields.

MOODLE COURSE

Elective Modules

In order to obtain the qualification "Banking and Insurance", 30 credit points must be earned in the elective modules from the curriculum of the Institute for Sustainable Banking and Finance or for Insurance Economy.

Credit Points: 5 LP
Examination: Written Exam
Language: English
Semester: Winter semester (recommended for the 5th semester)

This module provides an overview of the tasks and transactions of credit institutions. After the successful completion of the course, students will be able to model and solve problems occurring in the banking sector independently with scientific methods. The course especially focuses on the existence of banks as financial intermediaries, the structure of the German banking system as well as the most important types of transactions happening in banks. In the lecture, students learn about different models to explain the existence of banks. Another focus lies on the different types of services offered by banks (deposit business, credit business, investment banking, etc.). Moreover, the regulation of financial institutions, their internationalization, and new services in the area of electronic banking are discussed.

Moodle course

Credit points: 5 LP
Examination: Written Exam
Language: German
Semester: Winter semester (recommended in the 5th semesters)

This module provides insights into the fundamentals of financial and actuarial mathematics. After the successful completion of the course, participants are able to solve simple problems of insurance mathematics independently with scientific methods. In the lecture, students learn about different models to characterize financial and insurance contracts. Subsequently, different methods of valuating cash flows generated by these contracts, under both certainty and risk, are presented and discussed. Finally, students learn about the fundamentals and applications of selected models to display stochastic yield curves.



MOODLE COURSE

Credit Points: 5 LP
Examination: Written Exam
Language: English
Semester: Summer semester (recommended for the 4th semester)

In this lecture, students are introduced to financial risk management. After the successful completion of the module, students are able to identify, model, and measure risks occurring in the financial sector independently with scientific methods. First, the most important types of risks in financial institutions and industrial companies are presented. Then, elementary models and methods of their management are discussed. One focus lies on the management of credit risk, which is of vital importance for banks. Subsequently, financial derivatives and simple models to valuate them are presented. Finally, the liquidity management of financial institutions is of interest.

MOODLE COURSE

Credit Points: 5 LP
Examination: Term paper
Language: English
Semester: Summer semester (recommended for the 4th semester)

This module provides interested students with an overview of the most important methods and procedures of empirical research on banking and finance. Students are enabled to describe fundamental tasks and problems which occur during the formulation of an empirical research question and the conception of a research design. The focus of this course lies on the most important techniques to formulate an empirical research question, data processing, the performance of simple regression analyses, and the most important error sources in empirical work. After the successful completion of the module, students are able to formulate and empirically test new research questions independently with scientific methods.

MOODLE COURSE

Information about working scientifically as well as layout templates for the term paper written in the module “Empirical Banking and Finance” can be found in the download section on the Theses subpage.

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